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Faust with Live Music

The Devil has a wager: he can drag any man into absolute evil. To prove his point he chooses Faust, an aging alchemist about to discover that his whole life has been devoted to nothing. All the knowledge he has gathered is of no help when he tries to find a cure to save the city from a plague. When God does not answer, he calls on the Devil. Mephisto arrives and signs a binding contract with Faust that includes youth and eternal life. Now, in a burst of youth, Faust falls in love with the beautiful Gretchen... Already then, in the mid-1920s, the story of the man who sold his soul to the Devil had received several film adaptations (the first by Méliès in 1897). But F. W. Murnau, considered by many the greatest director of the silent era, delivers the best version ever made of Goethe's famous story. On the way to the peak of his work, "Sunrise", he continues to refine the astonishing style of his two previous films ("The Last Laugh" and "Tartuffe"), and even laypeople will not be able to help marveling at the wonderful lighting or the baroque camera movements. A film from the holdings of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung ( www.murnau-stiftung.de ) in Wiesbaden