Description: F.W. Murnau's Faust Product description F.W. Murnau's last German production before leaving for Hollywood is a visually dazzling take on the Faust myth. Pushing the resources of the grand old German studio UFA to the limits, Murnau creates an epic vision of good versus evil as devil Emil Jannings tempts an idealistic aging scholar with youth, power, and romance. The handsome but wan Swedish actor Gosta Ekman plays the made-over Faust as a perfectly shallow scoundrel drunk with youth, and the lovely Camilla Horn (in a part written for Lillian Gish) is the young virgin courted, then cast aside, by Faust. The drama falters in the middle with a tedious courtship and bizarre comic interludes, but the delirious images of the opening (Jannings enveloping a mountain town in his dark cloak of evil) and the high melodrama of the climax (Horn desperately clutching her baby while crawling, abandoned and lost, through a snowstorm) triumphs over such shortcomings. The sheer scale of Murnau's epic and the magnificent play of light, shadow, and mist on his exquisitely designed sets makes this one of the most cinematically ambitious, visually breathtaking, and beautiful classics of the silent era Product details Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1 MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated) Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 ounces Director : F.W. Murnau Media Format : Multiple Formats, NTSC, Silent, Subtitled, Black & White Run time : 1 hour and 25 minutes Release date : June 5, 2001 Actors : Gsta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle Subtitles: : English Studio : Kino Lorber films Writers : Gerhart Hauptmann, Hans Kyser, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Number of discs : 1
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Type: Movie
Language: German
Video Format: NTSC
Case Type: Tall/DVD Case
Subtitle Language: English
Studio: Kino Lorber
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Actor: Emil Jannings
Edition: Digitally Mastered from 35 mm Archive Materials
Rating: NR
Movie/TV Title: Faust
Director: F.W. Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Format: DVD
Release Year: 2001
Genre: Foreign Language
Sub-Genre: German