Silent | Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Faust (1926)
Faust, A German Folktale is a 1926 silent fantasy 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.
1926-12-05 19:00:00 - Silent Filmhouse
Murnau's film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe's classic 1808 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 is a tragedy drawn in magnificent images like paintings in light and shadow and is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful of Murnau's German films." TCM
"From the standpoint of taste and photographic brilliance it Is doubtful whether there has ever been a production that surpassed it." Variety
"It can be said without exaggeration that each individual scene in this production is in itself a perfect picture." New York Post