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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.
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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),
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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.
Now, my special edit, finally IN ONE GO! Watch the spectacular result of an experiment I did to find a way to combine the 'domestic cut' of Murnau's Faust with Timothy Brock's brilliant score, written for another version of this film, the so-called 'export version'. Let me explain a little bit further what I've done and how and why I did this. F.W. Murnau's masterpiece-film 'Faust' was released in 1926 and there are seven known versions of the film. The most well known version is the so-called 'export version' with english titles, that premiered in december 1926 in the USA. That export-version is 10 minutes longer than the newly discovered 'domestic version' a couple of years ago, the domestic version being the original 'German print', the one with German titles that was shown at the time...
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. Movie : Faust (1926) Directed by F. W. Murnau Produced by Erich Pommer Written by Hans Kyser Starring Gösta Ekman Emil Jannings Camilla Horn Wilhelm Dieterle Frida Richard Yvette Guilbert Music by Werner Richard Heymann (in the premiere) William Axt (US, uncredited) In this classic of silent cinema, the demon Mephisto (Emil Jannings) makes a bet with an archangel that a good man's soul can be corrupted. Mephisto sets his sights on the thoughtful old alchemist Faust (Gösta Ekman), who is desperately trying to save his village from a plague. He is able to help the villagers, thanks to Mephisto, but further dealings with the devil lead Faust on a decadent downward spiral. Can ...
Faust 1926 FW Murnau Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rendezte: F.W. Murnau1926 Zene: Paul Hensel 1926 Javier Pérez de Azpeitia (piano)
Il film espressionista si basa su antiche narrazioni del leggendario racconto, nonché sulla versione della storia come scritta da Goethe. Fu l'ultimo film del regista diretto in Germania, in seguito egli lavorerà ad Hollywood: quando il film venne proiettato all'UFA-Palast am Zoo di Berlino, il regista stava già girando negli USA. L'arcangelo Michele e Mefisto stringono un patto, per il quale a quest'ultimo sarebbe spettato il dominio sulla Terra se gli fosse riuscito di corrompere l'anima dello studioso dottor Faust. Lo stesso Mefisto diffonde la peste nel villaggio in cui vive Faust, un vecchio alchimista. Nonostante le ricerche e le preghiere, Faust non trova alcun rimedio all'epidemia. In preda allo sconforto, Faust getta i suoi libri nel fuoco, compresa la Bibbia. Uno di questi lib...
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.