Mephisto - tempting adviser

This is a clip from the stage play "Faust" - from 1960, filmed and directed by Peter Gorski.
Gustaf Gründgens plays the Mephistopheles.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust_%281960%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe's_Faust

MEPHISTOPHELES (in FAUST'S long gown):

Mortal! the loftiest attributes of men,
Reason and Knowledge, only thus contemn,
Still let the Prince of lies, without control,
With shows, and mocking charms delude thy soul,
I have thee UNCONDITIONALLY then!
Fate hath endow'd him with an ardent mind,
Which unrestrain'd still presses on for ever,
And whose precipitate endeavour
Earth's joys o'erleaping, leaveth them behind.
Him will I drag through life's wild waste,
Through scenes of vapid dulness, where at last
Bewilder'd, he shall falter, and stick fast;
And, still to mock his greedy haste,
Viands and drink shall float his craving lips beyond--
Vainly he'll seek refreshment, anguish-tost,
And were he not the devil's by his bond,
Yet must his soul infallibly be lost!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• fiction
• Goethe
• Faust
• Gründgens
• Mephisto
• science
• temptation
• hedonism
• sophism
• demagogy
• politics

[xaxie1]

This scene doesent appear in the script?

[christophmahler]

@xaxie1

You may have another translation at hand - or even another play (Christopher Marlowe).

I'll send You an alternative translation, so You can take a look for Yourself.

[flaminia5]

in diesem Film war Gründgens ein Genie

den bess'ren Teufel sahen wir noch nie

[shouwa52]

very nice!

[beatle1223]

beautiful



[checkeronetwo]

this is magic... really the best mephisto i have ever seen.

[blissbomb1988]

awesome

[vulkano896]

exelente

gracias por subirlo

[JohnStanleyHunter]

yes it really is...