Faust (1926)1h46
Fantasy · Drama · Horror
Director F. W. Murnau (7.8 avg)
Also directed Nosferatu, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, The Last Laugh, and 21 more
Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent cinema. Gösta Ekman plays the alchemist who, his faith shaken in a time of plague, is offered the gift of healing and eternal youth… in exchange for his soul.
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Cast
Gösta Ekman
Emil Jannings
Camilla Horn
Frida Richard
William Dieterle
Werner Fuetterer
Yvette Guilbert
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