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Title Faust : eine deutsche Volkssage / Manuskript, Hans Kyser ; Regie, F.W. Murnau ; [produced by Erich Pommer].

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Kino International, [2009]

Call No.PT1920 .F384 2009 2 videodiscs in one container. Circulation Desk
LocationMoore Video

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 Moore Video  PT1920 .F384 2009    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Restored deluxe ed.
Description 2 DVDs (222 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description digital
optical
mixed
NTSC
video file
DVD video
System Details DVD, NTSC; digital stereo; 1.33:1.
Note Silent, with added musical accompaniments.
Some credits from container.
Contents [Disc 1]. Restored German version (106 min.) / Transit Film ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung. The language of shadows : "Faust" -- [disc 2]. Previous U.S. release version (116 min.).
Note 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).
Cast Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frieda Richard, Wilhelm Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert, Eric Barclay, Hanna Ralph, Werner Fuetterer.
Credits Cinematography, Carl Hoffmann ; English intertitles, John Stone ; video producer, David Shepard.
Note Based on the play: Faust / by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
Originally produced as a German motion picture by UFA in 1926.
German version recorded in 5.1 stereo. surround or 2.0 stereo.
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; lost screen test footage of Ernst Lubitsch's abandoned 1923 production Marguerite and Faust; additional piano score by Perez de Azpeitia, adapted from the original 1926 orchestral arrangement; notes on the Mont Alto score.
Summary Dr. Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for scientific knowledge and perfect happiness.
Language German version: German intertitles with optional English subtitles. Previous U.S. release version: English intertitles.
Subject Faust, -approximately 1540 -- Drama.
Faust, -approximately 1540.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Soul -- Drama.
Soul.
Mephistopheles (Legendary character) -- Drama.
Mephistopheles (Legendary character)
Demonology -- Drama.
Demonology.
Faust (Motion picture : 1926)
Faust (Motion picture : 1926)
Genre/Form Foreign films.
Fiction films.
Fiction films.
Silent films.
Silent films.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Historical films.
Historical films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Kyser, Hans, 1882-1940.
Murnau, F. W. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1888-1931, director.
Ekman, Gösta, 1890-1938, actor.
Jannings, Emil, 1884-1950, actor.
Horn, Camilla, 1903-1996, actor.
Richard, Frieda, 1873-1946.
Dieterle, William, 1893-1972.
Guilbert, Yvette, 1865-1944.
Barclay, Eric, 1894-1938.
Ralph, Hanna, 1885-1978.
Fuetterer, Werner, 1907-1991.
Hoffmann, Carl, 1885-1947.
Stone, John, 1888-1961.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Brock, Timothy.
Shepard, David.
Herlth, Robert, 1893-1962.
Horak, Jan-Christopher.
Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947.
Pommer, Erich, 1889-1966.
UFA (Firm)
Kino International Corporation.
Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
Transit Film.
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
Added Title Faust (Motion picture : 1926). https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86845916 English & German.
Note Disc label title: F.W. Murnau's Faust
Added Title Language of shadows.
Standard No. 738329064921
Music No. K649 Kino International
K649A Kino International
K649B Kino International