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.
Faust
Mephisto
Gretchen Marguerite
Gretchens's Mother
Valentin
Erzengel
Marthe Schwerdtlein
Duke of Parma
Duchess of Parma
Farmboy (uncredited)
Friar (uncredited)
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