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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1926 DVD Release: 06/05/2001 Format: DVD - Black and White,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: German SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 56 mins Studio: Kino Members Wishing: 7 Genres: Fantasy, Tragedy See Also: Faust

Faust was the mammoth German production which won F. W. Murnau his contract with Hollywood's Fox Studios. Emil Jannings glowers his way through the role of Mephistopholes, who offers the aging Faust (Gosta Eckman) an opportunity to relive his youth, the price being Faust's soul. Though highly stylized, the film is unsettlingly realistic at times, especially during the execution of the unfortunate Gretchen. Even in old age, actress Camilla Horn could recall how close she came to genuine immolation when Murnau burned her at the stake. An American version of Faust had been planned earlier as a Mary Pickford vehicle, but Pickford's mother wanted no part of a film in which her darling daughter strangled her own baby. The scenario for Faust touches lightly upon the previous retellings by Goethe and Marlowe, but is more heavily reliant on the paintings of Pietr Breughel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Gösta Ekman - Faust
Emil Jannings - Mephisto
Camilla Horn - Marguerite
Werner Fuetterer - Archangel
Frida Richard - Mother

The groundbreaking German director F.W. Murnau turned his unique eye to the famous Faust story in 1926. This disc from Kino presents that classic horror film. The DVD offers a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. There are neither closed captions nor subtitles on this release. Supplemental materials include rare production stills and an essay from film historian Jan Christopher Horak. This is a superb disc, especially for anyone interested in the golden age of silent filmmaking. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide