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Faust. (1926 film) Faust – A German Folktale (German: Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage) is a 1926 silent fantasy film, produced by Ufa, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother, and Yvette Guilbert as ...
- Hans Kyser
- Erich Pommer
Faust: Directed by F.W. Murnau. With Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard. The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- F.W. Murnau
- 1926-12-06
May 8, 2005 · F.W. Murnau (1888-1931) made two of the greatest films of the supernatural, "Nosferatu" (1922) and "Faust" (1926), both voted among the best horror films of all time on the Internet Movie Database: "Faust" surprisingly in fourth place, just ahead of "The Shining," "Jaws" and "Alien." Murnau had a bold visual imagination, distinctive even during ...
W ith this 1926 adaptation of the Faust legend, that master of German expressionism, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, created a timeless visual masterpiece, a film which vigorously challenges any pre-conceived notions of silent cinema. Murnau's last film before he moved to Hollywood, the film represents both a transition of cinematic styles for its ...
Faust (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Faith Alone Shall Vanquish Death Director F.W. Murnau articulates the desperation brought on a medieval city by the devil, who unleashed the plague, for the sole purpose of testing the title character (Gosta Ekman), Lothar Muthel as the freaked out monk, in the 1926 UFA version of the German legend, Faust.
