Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Disc label title: F.W. Murnau's Faust
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| Other title: | Language of shadows.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Kyser, Hans, 1882-1940.
Murnau, F. W. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1888-1931.
Ekman, Gösta, 1890-1938.
Jannings, Emil, 1884-1950.
Horn, Camilla, 1903-1996.
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.
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| Language / Script: | "licensed only for private home use. All other rights including, but not limited to, institutional and educational use with public performance rights (unless permission specifically granted by Kino International)"--Container.
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| Notes: | Silent, with added musical accompaniments.
Some credits from container.
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).
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.
Cinematography, Carl Hoffmann ; English intertitles, John Stone ; video producer, David Shepard.
Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frieda Richard, Wilhelm Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert, Eric Barclay, Hanna Ralph, Werner Fuetterer.
DVD-video, NTSC; digital stereo; 1.33:1.
German version: German intertitles with optional English subtitles. Previous U.S. release version: English intertitles.
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| Summary: | Dr. Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for scientific knowledge and perfect happiness.
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| Standard no.: | 738329064921
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| Publisher's no.: | K649 Kino International
K649A Kino International
K649B Kino International
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