VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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Il demone Mefisto scommette con Dio che può corrompere l'anima di un uomo mortale.Il demone Mefisto scommette con Dio che può corrompere l'anima di un uomo mortale.Il demone Mefisto scommette con Dio che può corrompere l'anima di un uomo mortale.
Gösta Ekman
- Faust
- (as Gösta Ekmann)
Frida Richard
- Mutter
- (as Frieda Richard)
William Dieterle
- Valentin
- (as Wilhelm Dieterle)
Eric Barclay
- Herzog
- (as Eric Barcley)
Hans Brausewetter
- Farmboy
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Lothar Müthel
- Friar
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizDue to the success of F.W. Murnau's previous film, L'ultima risata (1924), the studio promised him an unlimited budget with which to make this film.
- Versioni alternativeThere were several versions created of Faust, several of them prepared by Murnau himself. The versions are quite different from one another. Some scenes have variants on pace, others have actors with different costumes and some use different camera angles. For example, a scene with a bear was shot with both a person in costume and an actual bear. In some versions, the bear simply stands there. In one version, it actually strikes an actor. Overall, five versions of Faust are known to exist out of the over thirty copies found across the globe: a German original version (of which the only surviving copy is in the Danish Film Institute), a French version, a late German version which exists in two copies, a bilingual version for Europe prepared by Ufa, and a version prepared by Murnau himself for MGM and the US market (July 1926).
- ConnessioniEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Fatale beauté (1994)
Recensione in evidenza
10/10
A lyrical fable version of Goethe's famous story, where Mephisto and an angel gamble with Faust's spirit, the entire film has an aura of delicate beauty. When Faust's town is shrouded with a pestilence, Faust summons Mephisto and agrees to a trial selling of his soul, in the hopes that he can save the townspeople. When Faust does indeed cure the town, Mephisto tempts him with the promise of youth and Gretchen, the most beautiful woman in Italy. Misty, often eerie, fiendish imagery, like satanic birds, hooded men, flying horsemen and Caligari-inspired exteriors fill the screen. When Faust signs his contract, the words burn themselves into the page as Mephisto dips his feather pen in Faust's vein. A wonderful touch near the beginning has Faust trying to escape Mephisto but having him appear wherever he goes, always a few steps ahead. Both Faust, as a young man, and Gretchen are lovely, and Jannings gives an excellent performance as the Dark Prince. A masterpiece of poetic atmosphere that ages Murnau's technical mastery wondrously, the film is aided tremendously by the sometimes ominous, sometimes enchanting orchestral score. 10/10
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- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 47 minuti
- Mix di suoni
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- 1.33 : 1
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