Faust

About Faust

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.

Faust is a 1926 fantasy horror film directed by F. W. Murnau. Gösta Ekman appears as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen Marguerite, and Frida Richard as Gretchens's Mother.

It runs 106 minutes and was released in October 1926. Written by Hans Kyser. The film began as a novel.

Members will find plague, pact with the devil, german expressionism, and eternal youth in it. American members can watch it on Kino Film Collection, MUBI, and MUBI Amazon Channel. It scores 7.9 out of 10 from 419 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

Me Before You, Dear John, and Metropolis make useful companions to Faust, all filed under love and romance.