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German ExpressionismFilm 15 of 19
Faust
Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage
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Murnau's last German film, Ufa, 1926, before he left for Fox and Sunrise. An archangel and Mephisto wager on Faust. Emil Jannings plays Mephisto, first as a winged plague over a town, then as a traveling companion. Gösta Ekman is Faust old and young. The flight over the model landscape is the famous trick. Gretchen is the part of the story that costs something.
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Mephisto's cloak coming down over the town is the most reproduced image in this collection, and it is a model, a fan, and a great deal of smoke. Then the flight over the model landscape. Then Gretchen in the snow, which is the part that costs something.
The Supernatural and the Occult
Mephisto as a plague. Jannings spreads his cloak over a town in the opening, a model and a fan and smoke, and the horror is the scale. Then the flight over the model landscape. The bargain is the plot. Gretchen in the snow is the price.
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