Faust (2-DVD) (Silent)

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DVD Features:

Number of Discs: 2
Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
Video: Black & White
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Released: March 17, 2009
Originally Released: 1926
Label: Kino Video
Packaging: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:

2.0 Stereo
Dolby Digital: 5.1 Stereo Surround
Subtitles - English

Additional Release Material:

Documentary: minute Documentary on the making of Murnau's film
New musical score by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
Featurette: The lost screen test footage of Ernst Lubitsch's abandoned 1923 production Marguerite and Faust.

Text/Photo Galleries:

Essay: Film Historian Jan Christopher Horak
Image Gallery

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn & Gosta Ekman
Performer:		Eric Barclay & William Dieterle
Directed by		F.W. Murnau
Screenwriting by		Hans Kyser
Composition by		Timothy Brock
Produced by		Erich Pommer
Director of Photography:		Carl Hoffman

Entertainment Reviews:

Entertainment Weekly - 06/08/2001
"...Its real seduction is Jannings' turn as Mephisto. His plumply repugnant devil emits the sweet stench of brimstone..."

USA Today - 03/13/1996
"...One of the director's most stirring works..."

Sight and Sound - 08/01/2006
"FAUST's two halves create a dialectical web opposing drama to comedy, darkness to light, repression to sexuality..."

Entertainment Weekly - 03/20/2009
"[Y]ou'll be knocked out cold by Murnau's indelible images, haunting use of shadows, and trippy, dreamlike expressionist sets." -- Grade: A

Description by OLDIES.com:

Mobilizing the full resources of the Ufa Studios, F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Sunrise) orchestrated a colossal adaptation of Goethe's Faust that ranks alongside Fritz Lang's Metropolis as the greatest achievement of the German silent cinema.

Gosta Ekman stars as the titular alchemist who, struggling with his faith amidst a devastating plague, is offered the power to cure and the gift of youth...in exchange for his soul. As the diabolical Mephisto, Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh) delivers a performance of operatic scale and intensity, by turns charming, comical, and horrific.

This special Kino edition contains the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation's meticulous restoration of the original German version of the film (with unique hand-painted intertitles), as well as a lengthier alternate cut prepared by the Ufa Studios in 1930.

Product Description:

Murnau's FAUST stars the inimitable Emil Jannings as Mephistopheles, to whom the hapless and aging Faust sells his soul for renewed youth as well as wealth and power. Based on Goethe's interpretation of the age old legend, Murnau merely uses the story as a starting point for an incredibly phantasmagoric vision of the struggle between good and evil. Beginning with a flourish, Murnau introduces Mephistopheles with one of the most famous sequences in film history, finding Jannings being birthed as a disgusting, primordial creature from the heavens and banished to the netherworld. Baroque, bizarre, and unforgettable, FAUST is one of the German master's greatest triumphs. Silent movie with English and German subtitles. The Kino version is restored with a symphonic soundtrack.

Plot Synopsis:

A visually stunning adaptation of Goethe's magnum opus as directed by one of silent cinema's greatest masters, F. W. Murnau.
Using ingenious special effects and a wide variety of baroque visual techniques, Murnau creates a shadowy medieval world where the occult mixes with the everyday in a beautiful cinematic alchemy. Illuminating a lost universe of spiritual possibilities that seem mere superstition today, he relates the classic tale of an ambitious young man who sells his soul to Lord Satan for corporeal wealth and success. The film features a stunning opening sequence where Faust is literally borne through the skies of Europe on the wings of Lucifer. A recklessly inventive masterpiece.

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Production Notes:

The Kino VHS version of "Faust" has been digitally remastered from an archival print. It is also accompanied by a full orchestral score composed and conducted by Timothy Brock, performed by the Olympia Chamber Orchestra.
175 new intertitles were created for the Kino VHS version, using period type; subtitles were also added to translate the many German language books and manuscripts shown throughout the film.