Music for German version compiled from historic photoplay music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (c2009). Music for U.S. release version composed and conducted by Timothy Brock (c1995). Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frieda Richard, Wilhelm Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert, Eric Barclay, Hanna Ralph, Werner Fuetterer. Based on the play: Faust / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Originally produced as a motion picture by UFA in 1926. 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 ; photo gallery ; lost screen test footage of Ernst Lubitsch's abandoned 1923 production Marguerite and Faust.
Contents:
[Disc 1]. Restored German version (106 min.) ; The language of shadows : "Faust" -- [Disc 2]. Previous U.S. release version (116 min.)
Summary:
Dr. Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for scientific knowledge and perfect happiness.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)312507275
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)
GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.