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Faust

7.9 106 mins Fantasy   Drama   Horror   1926
UFA   Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  
Director(s): F. W. Murnau

Release Date: 14 Thu, Oct 1926

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.

Casts of Faust

Gösta Ekman

as Faust

Emil Jannings

as Mephisto

Camilla Horn

as Gretchen Marguerite

Frida Richard

as Gretchens's Mother

William Dieterle

as Valentin

Werner Fuetterer

as Erzengel

Yvette Guilbert

as Marthe Schwerdtlein

Eric Barclay

as Duke of Parma

Hanna Ralph

as Duchess of Parma

Hans Brausewetter

as Farmboy (uncredited)

Lothar Müthel

as Friar (uncredited)

Hertha von Walther

as (uncredited)

Hans Rameau

as (uncredited)

Emmy Wyda

as (uncredited)

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