Faust (1926)

1h 46m · Directed by F. W. Murnau

Starring Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle

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.