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.
Directed by
F. W. Murnau
Emil Jannings
Mephisto
Eric Barclay
Duke of Parma
Hans Brausewetter
Farmboy (uncredited)
Camilla Horn
Gretchen Marguerite
Hanna Ralph
Duchess of Parma
Hertha von Walther
(uncredited)
Emmy Wyda
(uncredited)
Gösta Ekman
Faust
Werner Fuetterer
Erzengel
Yvette Guilbert
Marthe Schwerdtlein
Frida Richard
Gretchens's Mother
Lothar Müthel
Friar (uncredited)

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