Faust

The Voice of the Tempter.

• Rated 7.9 out of 10
• Movie
• 1926
• 1h 46m
• Fantasy
• Drama
• Horror

Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent cinema. Gösta Ekman plays the alchemist who, his faith shaken in a time of plague, is offered the gift of healing and eternal youth… in exchange for his soul.

Director

F. W. Murnau

Starring

Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard