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.
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> F. W. Murnau (Director) > Hans Rameau (Assistant Director) > Arno Richter (Assistant Art Director) > Carl Hoffmann (Director of Photography)
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> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Theatre Play) > Hans Kyser (Screenplay) > Christopher Marlowe (Theatre Play)
