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Faust : eine deutsche Volkssage /

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Dr. Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for scientific knowledge and perfect happiness.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Faust (Motion picture : 1926)
Main Authors: Brock, Timothy (Composer), Horak, Jan-Christopher (Author)
Corporate Authors: Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (Performer), UFA (Firm) (film production company.), Transit Film (film production company.), Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung (film production company.)
Other Authors: Kyser, Hans, 1882-1940 (Screenwriter), Pommer, Erich, 1889-1966 (Producer), 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), 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, Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947 (Director, Producer)
Format: Video DVD Blu-ray Disc
Language:English
German
Language Notes:Silent, with added musical accompaniments and optional English intertitles (German version) or English intertitles (U.S. release version).
Published: New York, NY : Kino Classics : Kino Lorber, [2015]
Edition:[Restored edition].
Subjects:
Faust, > -approximately 1540 > Drama.
Mephistopheles > (Legendary character) > Drama.
Soul > Drama.
Demonology > Drama.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832 > Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Silent films.
Feature films.
Historical films.
Film adaptations.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, German.
Description
Summary:Dr. Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for scientific knowledge and perfect happiness.
Item Description:Collection includes feature film in two versions: restored German version (106 min.) on Blu-ray disc and previous U.S. release version (116 min.) on DVD.
Some credits from container.
Based on the play: Faust / by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
Originally produced as a German motion picture by UFA in 1926.
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).
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.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; NTSC.
Blu-ray disc; region A; digitally restored HD from 35mm archival elements; recorded in 5.1 stereo surround or 2.0 stereo; requires Blu-ray player.
Production Credits:Cinematography, Carl Hoffmann ; English intertitles, John Stone ; video producer, David Shepard.