MOVIE · 1926
Faust
The Voice of the Tempter.
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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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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Gösta EkmanFaust
Emil JanningsMephisto
Camilla HornGretchen Marguerite
Frida RichardGretchens's Mother
William DieterleValentin
Werner FuettererErzengel
Yvette GuilbertMarthe Schwerdtlein
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