Faust
Original title: Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage
“The Voice of the Tempter.”
7.9(421)NR19261h 46mDE
Directed by F. W. Murnau
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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based on novel or booksale of soulpact with the devileternal youthromancefaustlovedeathsilent filmbased on myths, legends or folkloreplaguegerman expressionism
