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Faust (German: Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage) is a 1926 silent film produced by UFA, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother and Yvette Guilbert as Marthe Schwerdtlein, her aunt. Murnau's film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe's classic version. UFA wanted Ludwig Berger to direct Faust, as Murnau was engaged with Variety; Murnau pressured the producer and, backed by Jannings, eventually persuaded Erich Pommer to let him direct the film.
Faust was Murnau's last German film, and directly afterward he moved to the US under contract to William Fox to direct Sunrise (1927); when the film premiered in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin, Murnau was already shooting in Hollywood.
The demon Mephisto has a bet with an Archangel that he can corrupt a righteous man's soul and destroy in him what is divine. If he succeeds, the Devil will win dominion over earth.
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. "Faust" and the adjective "Faustian" imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term.
The Faust of early books—as well as the ballads, dramas, movies, and puppet-plays which grew out of them—is irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge; "he laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of Theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of Medicine". Plays and comic puppet theatre loosely based on this legend were popular throughout Germany in the 16th century, often reducing Faust and Mephistopheles to figures of vulgar fun. The story was popularised in England by Christopher Marlowe, who gave it a classic treatment in his play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604). In Goethe's reworking of the story two hundred years later, Faust becomes a dissatisfied intellectual who yearns for "more than earthly meat and drink" in his life.
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones (actor), Bruce McGill (actor), Joe Inscoe (actor), Jared Harris (actor), John Hawkes (actor), Dakin Matthews (actor), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), Hal Holbrook (actor), Gregory Itzin (actor), Grainger Hines (actor), Walton Goggins (actor), Lukas Haas (actor), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (actor), Tim Blake Nelson (actor), Peter McRobbie (actor),
Plot: In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law. Lincoln must, by almost any means possible, obtain enough votes from a recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or end the war.
Keywords: 1860s, 19th-century, american-civil-war, assassination, based-on-book, battle, battle-of-gettysburg, battlefield, cemetery, character-name-in-titleActors: Steve Eveleigh (editor), Johann Wolfgang Goethe (writer), Ross MacGibbon (producer), Roberto Alagna (actor), Bryn Terfel (actor), Jules Barbier (writer), Michel Carré (writer), Angela Gheorghiu (actress), Michel Carré (writer), Robin Lough (director), Antonio Pappano (actor), Simon Keenlyside (actor), Sue Judd (director), The Royal Opera Chorus (actor), David McVicar (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Music,Actors: Clive Barker (writer), Clive Barker (actor), Clive Barker (director), Doug Bradley (actor), Oscar Wilde (writer), Julia Blake (actress), Peter Atkins (actor), Anne Taylor (actress), Lyn Darnell (actress), Phil Rimmer (actor), Adrian Carson (composer), Graham Bickley (actor),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Steve Eveleigh (editor), Sergei Prokofiev (writer), Brian Large (director), Josef d'Bache-Kane (editor), Peter Maniura (producer), Jane Seymour (producer), Fiona Seatter (miscellaneous crew), Sergei Leiferkus (actor), Larissa Diadkova (actress), Vladimir Ognovenko (actor), Sergei Alexashkin (actor), Val Fraser (miscellaneous crew), Gennady Bezzubenkov (actor), Galina Gorchakova (actress), Konstantin Pluzhnikov (actor),
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery,Actors: Veronika Fitz (actress), Rainer Basedow (actor), Arthur Brauss (actor), Dieter Hildebrandt (actor), Helga Borsche (editor), Michael Habeck (actor), Heinz Meier (actor), Jochen Busse (actor), Edith Volkmann (actress), Jophi Ries (actor), Vitus Zeplichal (actor), Heinrich Schmieder (actor), Richard Beek (actor), Karin Rasenack (actress), Antje Schmidt (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Ken Russell (miscellaneous crew), Ken Russell (director), Johann Wolfgang Goethe (writer), Ruggero Raimondi (actor), Jules Barbier (writer), Michel Carré (writer), Chor der Wiener Staatsoper (actor), Francisco Araiza (actor), Wiener Staatsopernballett (actor), Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper (actor), Alfred Sramek (actor), Carl Toms (costume designer), Gabriela Benacková (actress), Gabriele Sima (actress), Bühnenorchester der Wiener Staatsoper (actor),
Genres: Drama, Musical,Actors: Steven Rumbelow (writer), Steven Rumbelow (director), Steven Rumbelow (editor), Brian Abbott (actor), Monica Buford (actress), Rita Rumbelow (costume designer),
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Genres: Horror, Short,Actors: Fanny Hatton (writer), Ricardo Cortez (actor), Larry Kent (actor), Montagu Love (actor), Frederic Hatton (writer), Fanny Hatton (writer), Helen Jerome Eddy (actress), Hugo Riesenfeld (composer), Margarete Kupfer (actress), Frederic Hatton (writer), Claire Windsor (actress), John M. Stahl (producer), Frances Guihan (writer), James Flood (director), Desmond O'Brien (editor),
Genres: Sci-Fi,Actors: Bror Berger (actor), K.E. Ståhlberg (producer), K.E. Ståhlberg (director), Hjalmar Procopé (actor), Apollon Vahtimestari (actor), Herra Bengelsdorf (actor), Kola Noschis (actor),
Genres: ,God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.
The intro to this movie is amazingly impressive with its original special effects. The apocalyptic riders are spreading ills on mankind and the Archangel Michael is sent to consult with Mephistopheles.
Tourmenteur de l'humanité avec la guerre, la peste ou la famine, Méphisto considère que la terre lui appartient. L'Archange Gabriel lui évoque le nom de Faust, un vieux savant, un juste dont la vie entière est la preuve que la terre n'est pas totalement soumise au Mal. Méphisto promet de détourner de Dieu l'âme de Faust. Alors la terre sera tienne, promet l'Archange... Dans son village décimé par la peste, Faust, désespéré, trouve un grimoire lui permettant d'invoquer le Diable, et signe avec lui un pacte de 24 heures pour sauver les malades. Mais les villageois s'en aperçoivent et veulent le lapider. En proie au suicide, Faust accepte une nouvelle proposition de Méphisto : retrouver sa jeunesse en échange de son âme... Réalisé par: Friedrich-Wilhelm Murnau Avec: Gösta Ekman, Emil Janning...
Faust 1926 FW Murnau Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Страна: Германия Режиссер: Фридрих Вильгельм Мурнау В ролях: Геста Экман, Эмиль Яннингс, Камилла Хорн, Фрида Ричард, Уильям Дитерле, Иветт Гильбер, Эрик Барклай, Ханна Ральф, Вернер Фюттерер, Ганс Браузеветтер Интертитры: немецкие
Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926), Regie: Friedrich Murnau, Teil 1 von 11, ohne Ton
F. W. Murnau's Faust was seen as 'kitsch' by several contemporary critics. This clip includes the brilliant soundtrack rescored by Timothy Brock. "A balance between 'classicism and kitsch' not a 'Gesamtkunstverk' (true art) - Fritz Göttler "Those German critics who were not on UFA's payroll expressed contempt for the film's sentimentalism, dismissing it as a 'kitsch travesty' of the classic text of German literature." - Liz Jones, journalist "Emil Jannings (Mephisto in Faust) developed at a time when German film, in the grip of big business but also under the influence of the educated haute bourgeoisie, had gone beyond the anarchistic excesses, the unhibited celebrations of kitsch, and the explosive sensuality of its early years and was orienting itself to middle-class 'taste'." - Kl...
You can never understand me.
'Cause I, I felt this in my...
I felt this in my soul.
You never made an understanding.
'Cause I, I felt this in my...
I felt this in my soul.
This, this never meant shit to you.
I could prove that.
My, my moist eyes..
You broke a sweat and I belong here.
You can never understand me.
'Cause I, I felt this in my...
I felt this in my soul.
You never made an understanding.
'Cause I, I felt this in my...
I felt this in my soul.
This never meant shit to you.
I could prove that.
My, my moist eyes..
You broke a sweat and I belong here.
I belong here now.
You took my hand and led me wrong,
Now I'm back and I'm sad.
And I... I wanna know why.
It's always on my mind, I can't get it out..
I wake up at night, in my bed, and its on my mind.
It's always on my mind.
And I can't get it out.
It's always on my mind, I can't get it out..
I wake up at night, in my bed, its on my mind.
It's always on my mind.
And I can't get it out.
I know I try.