Faust

Released 1926 · Fantasy, Drama, Horror · 106 min · ★ 7.9/10 · Directed by F. W. Murnau

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.