1926 · fantasy · drama · german
Faust
Directed by F. W. Murnau1h 56m1926
God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.
Our read: Faust (1926) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive fantasy · drama · german entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured fantasy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- signature
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