Faust
by F.W. Murnau
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Actor: Camilla Horn, Emil Jannings, Frida Richard, G?sta Ekman, William DieterleDirector: F.W. Murnau
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kino Video
Movie Reviews of Faust
Movie Review: What would you sell your soul for?
Summary: 5 Stars
What would you sell your soul for?
This is the question posed by the Faust tale, told by Marlowe, by Goethe and here by the incomparable F W Murnau.
As usual, Murnau is a master of creating mood and so the scenes with Mephisto are dark and forboding. The scenes with old Faust are tinted as if with age and the scenes of young Faust almost burst off the scene with their electric energy.
A master of the moment, Murnau uses a rush of pictures to tell his story. The dark Mephisto, all hawk winged poses over of the people. The weary old Faust cringes in terror as he helplessly uses the finger of his healing to dam off the incringing plague. The resigned Faust agrees with Mephisto a one day trial to heal certainly all instead of maybe a few. The young Faust beams radiantly in the glow of love. The distraught Faust sacrifices all to save his love.
And finally "liebe" love itself litterally beats the devil.
Owing to its gravity and potential for being sacarine, the Faust tale requires a true master for its telling and this movie shows just how well F W Murnau is suited to the task...so suited in fact that he deserves to be watched along with those who've read Marlowe and Goethe.
Summary of Faust
F.W. Murnau's last German production before leaving for Hollywood is a visually dazzling take on the Faust myth. Pushing the resources of the grand old German studio UFA to the limits, Murnau creates an epic vision of good versus evil as devil Emil Jannings tempts an idealistic aging scholar with youth, power, and romance. The handsome but wan Swedish actor Gosta Ekman plays the made-over Faust as a perfectly shallow scoundrel drunk with youth, and the lovely Camilla Horn (in a part written for Lillian Gish) is the young virgin courted, then cast aside, by Faust. The drama falters in the middle with a tedious courtship and bizarre comic interludes, but the delirious images of the opening (Jannings enveloping a mountain town in his dark cloak of evil) and the high melodrama of the climax (Horn desperately clutching her baby while crawling, abandoned and lost, through a snowstorm) triumphs over such shortcomings. The sheer scale of Murnau's epic and the magnificent play of light, shadow, and mist on his exquisitely designed sets makes this one of the most cinematically ambitious, visually breathtaking, and beautiful classics of the silent era. --Sean AxmakerArt House & International DVD Video
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