Faust

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Faust, 1926.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Faust, 1926.

His city overrun with plague, still desperate to save everyone, the title character (Gosta Ekman) executes instructions delivered to him, it appears, by the devil himself, thereby conjuring Mephisto (Emil Jannings), in F.W. Murnau’s UFA production of Faust, 1926.

Not fooling around for a moment, an apocalyptic opening with an archangel (Werner Fuetterer), an un-credited devil and Gosta Ekman as the title character, F.W. Murnau directs the German folk-tale, with a new recording of the original score, in Faust, 1926.

Director F.W. Murnau articulates the desperation brought on a medieval city by the devil, who unleashed the plague, for the sole purpose of testing the title character (Gosta Ekman), Lothar Muthel as the freaked out monk, in the 1926 UFA version of the German legend, Faust.