About this movie
- Genres:
- Horror, Mystery & Suspense
- Language:
- English
- Running time:
- 1:55:42
- Partner rating:
- Released:
- 1926
Cast & Crew
Cast
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Gösta Ekman
Faust
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Emil Jannings
Mephisto
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Camilla Horn
Marguerite
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Frida Richard
Mother
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William Dieterle
Valentin
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Yvette Guilbert
Marthe
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Eric Barclay
Duke of Parma
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Hanna Ralph
Duchess of Parma
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Werner Fuetterer
Archangel
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Hans Brausewetter
Farmboy
- Hertha Von Walther
- Hans Rameau
Directors
- F.W. Murnau
Producers
- Erich Pommer
- David Shepard
Writers
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Hans Kyser
Faust
Faust was the mammoth German production which won F. W. Murnau his contract with Hollywood's Fox Studios. Emil Jannings glowers his way through the role of Mephistopholes, who offers the aging Faust (Gosta Eckman) an opportunity to relive his youth, the price being Faust's soul. Though highly stylized, the film is unsettlingly realistic at times, especially during the execution of the unfortunate Gretchen. Even in old age, actress Camilla Horn could recall how close she came to genuine immolation when Murnau burned her at the stake. An American version of Faust had been planned earlier as a Mary Pickford vehicle, but Pickford's mother wanted no part of a film in which her darling daughter strangled her own baby. The scenario for Faust touches lightly upon the previous retellings by Goethe and Marlowe, but is more heavily reliant on the paintings of Pietr Breughel.
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