Faust

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.

Cast

Gösta Ekman

Emil Jannings

Camilla Horn

Frida Richard

Werner Fuetterer

Yvette Guilbert