Faust (1926 movie)
Faust is a 1926 German silent movie. It was directed by F. W. Murnau. It stars Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, and Camilla Horn as Gretchen. The story is about an old man who sells his soul to the devil. In return he becomes young again. The movie uses both traditional tales of Faust and Goethe's play. The movie was difficult and expensive to make. Faust was Murnau's last German movie. He moved to the United States to direct Sunrise. The "Bald Mountain" scene in the movie inspired the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment in Walt Disney's Fantasia.
| Faust | |
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| Directed by | F. W. Murnau |
| Produced by | Erich Pommer |
| Written by | Hans Kyser |
| Starring | Gösta Ekman Emil Jannings Camilla Horn Wilhelm Dieterle Frida Richard Yvette Guilbert |
| Music by | Werner Richard Heymann (in the premiere) William Axt (US, uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Carl Hoffman |
| Distributed by | UFA (Germany) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA) |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | Weimar Republic |
| Language | Silent film German intertitles |
| Budget | 2 million marks |
References
- Eisner, Lotte H. 1973. Murnau. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520024250.
Other websites
- Faust on IMDb
- Faust Archived 2009-07-25 at the Wayback Machine at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films Archived 2006-07-20 at the Wayback Machine list
- Faust at AllRovi
- Faust at YouTube
- DVD review by Gary Johnson
