Faust
Subtitle: eine deutsche Volkssage
By: Kino International ; Transit Film GmbH ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; UFA ; manuskript, Hans Kyser ; Regie, F.W. Murnau
Contributors: Ekman, Gösta, 1890-1938, actor; Jannings, Emil, 1884-1950, actor; Horn, Camilla, 1903-1996, actor; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Pérez de Azpeitia, Javier; Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra; UFA (Firm); Kino International Corporation; Transit Film; Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung; Televisión Española; Filmoteca Madrid (Firm)
Edition: Restored ed.
Series: Murnau (Kino)
Publisher: Kino International; Distributed worldwide by Transit Film GmbH
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y; [Germany]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Drama; Faust (Motion picture); Film and video adaptations; Motion picture producers and directors; Mephistopheles (Legendary character); Soul; Biography; Demonology
Other titles: Deutsche volkssage; F.W. Murnau's Faust; Die Sprache der Schatten : Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau und seine filme
Description: Dr. Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for scientific knowledge and perfect happiness.
Notes: Based on the play: Faust / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1926.

Released in 2009 as part of a 6 DVD set, Murnau, by Kino International.

Disc menu incorrectly lists bonus documentary title as "The language of shadows : Faust."

Restricted to home use or face-to-face teaching.

Photographie, Carl Hoffmann ; intertitles, Hans Kyser ; Choice of musical score: piano score by Javier Pérez de Azpeitia, based on the orchestral arrangement by Peter Hensel or music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frieda Richard, Wilhelm Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert, Eric Barclay, Hanna Ralph, Werner Fuetterer.

DVD, NTSC; 1.33:1 aspect ratio ; Stereo 2.0 or 5.1 audio.

German intertitles with optional English subtitles ; silent, with added musical accompaniment.
Table of contents: title: Special features: Das Meisterstück : Faust (from the series Die Sprache der Schatten : Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau und seine filme / The language of shadows : F. W. Murnau and his films) (TVE ; Filmoteca Madrid ; 2007 ; 53 min.) ; set designs by Robert Herlth ; screen tests for Ernst Lubitsch's "Marguerite and Faust" ; photo gallery ; essay by film historian Jan Christopher Horak ; Notes on the Mont Alto Score [found on the audio setup menu].