# Faust (1926)

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**Original title**: *Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage*
**Runtime**: 116 min
**Genres**: Fantasy, Drama, Horror
**Directed by**: F. W. Murnau
**Written by**: Hans Kyser
**Starring**: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle, Werner Fuetterer

> *The Voice of the Tempter.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Prague’s tenement bells drown in a spider web of dusk. A gaunt scholar kneels before black candles, minting his own contract.

God and Satan lay odds on his soul.

One hand inched over candlelight, the other sealed in shadow.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, dread, slow-burn, surreal

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