Faust

1926 · 106 min · DE · NR · 7.9 (422 votes)

Dir. F. W. Murnau · Starring Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle, Werner Fuetterer · Music Werner R. Heymann

“The Voice of the Tempter.”

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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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A visually stunning descent into existential dread. Faust's pact unfolds with operatic grandeur and nightmarish imagery, exploring the eternal struggle between good and evil with haunting, expressionistic flair.

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