Faust (1960)
2h 8m
Running Time
September 30, 1960Release Date
Plot.
In 1957 Gustaf Gründgens staged a new production of Goethe's Faust in which he once again played Mephisto, a part he had played since 1932. The brilliant production was a huge success and ran for a couple of years. In 1959 Peter Gorski captured the performance on film in his directorial film debut. Basically it is a registration of the production, but Gorksi did manage to accentuate the details of the acting by using enough medium and close-up shots which give a view on the acting you normally would not able to see in a theater.
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Cast & Crew.
Will Quadflieg
Dr. Heinrich Faust
Gustaf Gründgens
Mephistopheles
Ella Büchi
Margarete "Gretchen"
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Marthe Schwerdtlein
Hermann Schomberg
Theaterdirektor
Friedrich G. Beckhaus
Brander
Eduard Marks
Wagner
Max Eckard
Valentin
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Faust is a 1960 West German theatrical film directed by Peter Gorski. It is based on Goethe's Faust (1808) and adapted from the theater production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. It stars Peter Gorski's adoptive father Gustaf Gründgens as Mephistopheles and Will Quadflieg as Faust, and was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The film also won a Deutscher Filmpreis (transl.: German Movie Award) for an Outstanding Documentary or Cultural Film in 1961.