Faust (1926)
Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage
The Voice of the Tempter.
107 min
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.
- Release date
- October 14, 1926
- Country of origin
- Germany
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Cast
- Gösta Ekman as Faust
- Emil Jannings as Mephisto
- Camilla Horn as Gretchen
- Frida Richard as Mutter
- William Dieterle as Valentin
- Werner Fuetterer as Erzengel
- Yvette Guilbert as Marthe
- Eric Barclay as Herzog
- Hanna Ralph as Herzogin
- Hans Brausewetter as Farmboy
- Lothar Müthel as Friar (uncredited)
- Hertha von Walther as (uncredited)
- Hans Rameau as (uncredited)
- Emmy Wyda as (uncredited)
Crew
- F.W. Murnau · Director
- Gerhart Hauptmann · Writer
- Hans Kyser · Writer
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Writer
- Erich Pommer · Producer
- Wolfgang Dauner · Composer
- Jacco Gardner · Composer
- Werner R. Heymann · Composer
- Thomas Köner · Composer
- Carl Hoffmann · Cinematographer
- Elfi Böttrich · Editor