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Faust : eine deutsche Volkssage
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- Summary
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Dr. Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for scientific knowledge and perfect happiness.
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- Creator
- Manuskript, Hans Kyser ; Regie, F.W. Murnau ; [produced by Erich Pommer]
- Other Title
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- Disc label title: F.W. Murnau's Faust
- Included Title
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- Language of shadows
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Languages
- English, German
- Contributors
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- Kyser, Hans, 1882-1940, screenwriter
- Murnau, F. W. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1888-1931, director
- Ekman, Gösta, 1890-1938, actor
- Jannings, Emil, 1884-1950, actor
- Horn, Camilla, 1903-1996, actor
- Richard, Frieda, 1873-1946, actor
- Dieterle, William, 1893-1972, actor
- Guilbert, Yvette, 1865-1944, actor
- Barclay, Eric, 1894-1938, actor
- Ralph, Hanna, 1885-1978, actor
- Fuetterer, Werner, 1907-1991, actor
- Hoffmann, Carl, 1885-1947, cinematographer
- Stone, John, 1888-1961, screenwriter
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust
- Brock, Timothy, composer
- Shepard, David
- Herlth, Robert, 1893-1962
- Horak, Jan-Christopher
- Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947, director, producer
- Pommer, Erich, 1889-1966, producer
- UFA (Firm)
- Kino International Corporation
- Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
- Transit Film
- Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
- Publication
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- Restored deluxe edition
- New York, N.Y. : Kino International, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- 2 videodiscs (222 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- digital optical stereo
- NTSC
- video file DVD video
- OCLC
- ocn312507275
- Credits
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- Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frieda Richard, Wilhelm Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert, Eric Barclay, Hanna Ralph, Werner Fuetterer
- Cinematography, Carl Hoffmann ; English intertitles, John Stone ; video producer, David Shepard
- "licensed only for private home use. All other rights including, but not limited to, institutional and educational use with public performance rights (unless permission specifically granted by Kino International)"--Container.
- Silent, with added musical accompaniments.
- Some credits from container.
- New musical score compiled from historic photoplay music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (c2009); additional piano score by Perez de Aspeitia, adopted from the original 1926 orchestral arrangement; music for U.S. release version composed and conducted by Timothy Brock (copyright 1995).
- Based on the play: Faust / by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
- Originally produced as a German motion picture by UFA in 1926.
- German version recorded in 5.1 stereo. surround or 2.0 stereo.
- Special features: "The language of shadows : Faust," a 53-min. documentary on the making of the film; set designs by Robert Herlth; photo gallery; essay by Jan Christopher Horak; lost screen test footage of Ernst Lubitsch's abandoned 1923 production Marguerite and Faust; notes on the Mont Alto score.
- DVD-video, NTSC; digital stereo; 1.33:1.
- German version: German intertitles with optional English subtitles. Previous U.S. release version: English intertitles.
- [Disc 1]. Restored German version (106 min.) / Transit Film ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung. The language of shadows : "Faust" -- [disc 2]. Previous U.S. release version (116 min.)