Faust
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Camilla Horn, Emil Jannings, Frida Richard, Gösta Ekman, William Dieterle Director: F.W. Murnau Brand: Kino International Cinematographer: Carl Hoffmann Editor: Elfi Böttrich Producer: Erich Pommer Writer: Gerhart Hauptmann Writer: Hans Kyser Writer: Johann Wolfgang Goethe DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); German (Original Language) Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Silent, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 85 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-06-05 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Model: 2072 Studio: Kino Video Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Faust
Movie Review: Gorgeous film but leave the sound off
Summary: 4 Stars
For the most part I have little to add to what others have written - it's a beautiful film, essential viewing, and it looks great on this DVD. BUT, as regards the newly composed score, although the composer has done a fine job matching the drama (perhaps a bit too closely at times) -- it receives an truly poor performance (by the Olympia Chamber Orchestra??!?) -- the strings especially are not able to play the music with any reliable degree of accuracy, which makes for many painful moments. (Some parts sound ok -- woodwinds, and solo harp especially.) This is really an unfortunate, even embarrassing mark against an otherwise fine release -- unless the goal was to recreate the sound of an under-rehearsed cinema orchestra sight reading a score circa 1926, in which case it succeeds.