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Faust : eine deutsche Volkssage /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: K20191 | Kino ClassicsLanguage: English, German Subtitle language: English Publisher: Germany : Universum Film, 1926Distributor: New York, NY : Kino Classics ; Kino Lorber, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015 Edition: Blu-ray + bonus DVD ; restored editionDescription: 2 videodiscs : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Disc label title: F.W. Murnau's Faust
  • English subtitles title: Faust, a German folktale
  • Also known as: Faust, a German folk legend
  • Also known as: Fausto
Uniform titles:
  • Faust (Motion picture : 1926)
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PT1920 .F38 2015
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.).
Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Carl Hoffmann ; English intertitles, John Stone ; video producer, David Shepard.
Cast: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frieda Richard, Wilhelm Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert, Eric Barclay, Hanna Ralph, Werner Fuetterer.Summary: Dr. Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for scientific knowledge and perfect happiness.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00188 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050304017

Collection includes feature film in two versions: restored German version (106 min.) on Blu-ray disc and previous U.S. release version (116 min.) on DVD.

Some credits from container.

Based on the play: Faust / by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.

Originally produced as a German motion picture by UFA in 1926.

New musical score compiled from historic photoplay music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (c2009); additional piano score by Perez de Aspeitia, adopted from the original 1926 orchestral arrangement; music for U.S. release version composed and conducted by Timothy Brock (copyright 1995).

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; notes on the Mont Alto score.

[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.).

DVD; NTSC.

Blu-ray disc; region A; digitally restored HD from 35mm archival elements; recorded in 5.1 stereo surround or 2.0 stereo; requires Blu-ray player.

Silent, with added musical accompaniments and optional English intertitles (German version) or English intertitles (U.S. release version).

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