Faust

Faust

  • Director: F.W. Murnau
  • Writer: Gerhart Hauptmann,Hans Kyser,Johann Wolfgang von G
  • Countries of origin: Germany
  • Language: None, German
  • Release date: December 6, 1926
  • Sound mix: Silent
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33 : 1
  • Also known as: Fausto
  • Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage is a 1926 drama film directed by FW Murnau, starring Emil Jannings and Eric Barclay.
    "Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage" tells the story of Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage and the young girl Magdalene.

    Details

    • Release date December 6, 1926
    • Filming locations Ufa-Atelier, Berlin-Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
    • Production companies Universum Film (UFA)

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    • By Madeline 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      All fear is the price of love

      German films in the Weimar era created a unique psychological and cultural structure whose influence has radiated to the present day. The film aesthetics represented by "Expressionism", in the more than ten years of Germany's transition from the Second Reich to the Third Reich, with its solid The film industry, and even became a direct source of film creativity in Hollywood's golden age, must have been unexpected.

      In July, the German Masters Exhibition organized by the Shanghai...

    • By Kattie 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      Once again due to the lack of short reviews

      I didn't look at the legend about Faust, all I know is that the Johnson who describes the Delta blues is that he made a deal with the devil at the crossroads - which should be just as fascinating as Orpheus' turn. But it is natural to think of Goethe's book, and the screenwriters and directors who want to come here are the refiners of the first book. (Looking back and looking at Faust’s small essay written at the beginning, I am really impressed~) The first one is Goethe’s lyric poem, and...

    • By Cameron 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      Take a short note.

      Mephistopheles has been portrayed as superb from the costumes to the performance, but Faust has been so weakened that it can be ignored. When the part with Gretchen was over, Faust turned into an angel, the word Liebe (love) appeared on the screen, and then by the end of the show, I was still a little sweaty.

      "Mortals keep working hard, and we can save." Goethe said in a conversation with Ekman in 1831, and the secret of Faust's salvation lies in these few lines. "There is an energy...

    • By Izaiah 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      Faust's entanglement is not because of love but the multiple shadows of love

      Thinking and seeking, the void chases away the spring breeze. The spring breeze is green, the mountains are south and the sea is north, and the youth travels. Juguang floating shadow is now drilling into the gap, life is like the reverse of travel. Going like the reverse, Nanke has no dreams, chasing Hongyi. Faust, Faust, what do you choose? Is it a mythical legend or the lifelong skill of Goethe, a religious doctrine or enlightenment technology, a god or a devil, the anxiety of old age or...

    • By Trevor 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      more than love

      Judging from the content of the movie, this is not just a love movie. At the end of the movie, the girl with a baby in her arms and tears streaming down her face resembles the Virgin Mary, which implies that Faust is God. Faust is not a God in the sense we understand. He is old, incomprehensible, and cowardly. He is full of knowledge, but in the end he can only watch his people die from the plague. Made a deal with the devil. The devil satisfied his selfish desires, he became young and...

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    • By Jerad 2023-08-21 01:45:15

      I am amazed at the level of movies in the 1920s. I don't know how to make the awesome special effects. Murnau is very good at using the camera, whether it is a sports lens or a flexible fixed position, it is worth...

    • By Garett 2023-04-07 21:35:59

      Deducting one star for the end of that adaptation, Faust can die, but in the end, God told the devil that love is a bit hard to tell the story. Everything is fine up front, the arrangement of the story, the music. The best thing is the lighting of this movie. The scenes in the house can fully express the characters' characteristics by the...

    • By Linnea 2022-12-23 13:21:18

      The images of angels and demons are so spectacular, they fill the frame with perfect proportions and huge perspectives // indeed, Murnau's images are always amazing // naturally, silent films have to pay more attention to the soundtrack, the symphony is more shocking and spectacular, and the low-pitched horns foreshadow evil The soft harp of power reveals...

    • By Mike 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      Light comes from darkness. Mephisto is surprisingly fat, but God's shape is very...

    • By Felicia 2022-04-24 07:01:25

      It's hard to imagine that this is a work from the 1920s...a true silent...

    Movie plot

    The film is adapted from the first part of Goethe's poetic play "Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage", which is about the story of Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage and the girl Magdalene. The angel and the devil made a bet that if he could capture the soul of Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage God would give him the world, the devil brought a plague to the city, Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage wanted to find the antidote but could not find it,...
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    Evaluation action

    This monumental production of expressionist imagery has lavish sets and special effects, but the stunning visuals cannot hide the dramatic weakness of the middle passages (such as Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage's pursuit of Margaret). It was remade in 1941 as All That Money Can Buy.
    The beginning of "Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage" is extremely shocking, and in the music of the magnificent Gounod opera we see the rising fire of hell....
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    Movie quotes

    • Funeral Choir: [singing] Earth and sky shall surely quake, when the dead themselves awake, answers to the Lord to take. When the court is held in sway, hiding shall no longer pay, all must out on Judgement Day!

    • Faust: Damn! Damn the delusion of youth!

    • Erzengel: [Last lines] The word that rings joyfully throughout creation, the word that alleviates every pain and sorrow, the word that absolves all the guilt of humanity, the eternal word. Dost thou not know it?

      Mephisto: What is the word?

      Erzengel: Love