Faust (1926 movie)

Faust is a 1926 German silent movie. It was directed by F. W. Murnau. It stars Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, and Camilla Horn as Gretchen. The story is about an old man who sells his soul to the devil. In return he becomes young again. The movie uses both traditional tales of Faust and Goethe's play. The movie was difficult and expensive to make. Faust was Murnau's last German movie. He moved to the United States to direct Sunrise. The "Bald Mountain" scene in the movie inspired the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment in Walt Disney's Fantasia.

Faust
Directed by	F. W. Murnau
Written by	Hans Kyser
Produced by	Erich Pommer
Starring	Gösta Ekman Emil Jannings Camilla Horn Wilhelm Dieterle Frida Richard Yvette Guilbert
Cinematography	Carl Hoffman
Music by	Werner Richard Heymann (in the premiere) William Axt (US, uncredited)
Distributed by	UFA (Germany) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA)
Release dates	14 September 1926 (1926-09-14) (Austria) 5 December 1926 (1926-12-05) (US)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	Weimar Republic
Languages	Silent film German intertitles
Budget	2 million marks

References

• Eisner, Lotte H. 1973. Murnau. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520024250.

Other websites

• Faust on IMDb
• Faust Archived 2009-07-25 at the Wayback Machine at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films Archived 2006-07-20 at the Wayback Machine list
• Faust at AllMovie
• Faust on YouTube
• DVD review by Gary Johnson