Faust
The Voice of the Tempter.
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10/14/1926Runtime
106 minsOverview
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.
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A grand, shadow-drenched morality play where towering sets and distorted angles mirror the spiritual turmoil of a man tempted by forces beyond his control. Murnau's visual inventiveness transforms a medieval legend into a hypnotic meditation on desire, consequence, and the price of transcendence.
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Gösta Ekman
Faust
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Camilla Horn
Gretchen Marguerite
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William Dieterle
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Werner Fuetterer
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Eric Barclay
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Hanna Ralph
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Hans Brausewetter
Farmboy (uncredited)
Lothar Müthel
Friar (uncredited)
Hertha von Walther
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