Faust (1960 film)

Faust

Directed by	Peter Gorski Gustaf Gründgens (uncredited)
Produced by	Ilse Kubaschewski Walter Traut
Written by	Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Starring	Will Quadflieg
Cinematography	Günther Anders
Release dates	25 May 1960 (1960-05-25)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Faust is a 1960 West German theatrical film directed by Peter Gorski. It is based on Goethe's Faust and adapted from the theater production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. The film starred Peter Gorski's adoptive father Gustav 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.^[1]^[2] The film also won a Deutscher Filmpreis (transl.: German Movie Award) for an Outstanding Documentary or Cultural Film in 1961.

Cast

Will Quadflieg as Dr. Heinrich Faust / Dichter
Gustaf Gründgens as Mephistopheles 'Mephisto' / Lustige Person
Ella Büchi as Margarete "Gretchen"
Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Marthe Schwerdtlein (as E. Flickenschildt)
Hermann Schomberg as Theaterdirektor / Der HERR / Erdgeist (as H. Schomberg)
Eduard Marks as Wagner
Max Eckard as Valentin
Uwe Friedrichsen as Schüler
Heinz Reincke as Frosch
Hans Irle as Altmayer
Friedrich G. Beckhaus as Brander (as F. G. Beckhaus)
Karl Heinz Wüpper as Siebel (as K. H. Wüpper)
Heidi Leupolt as Lieschen
Gustl Busch as Hexe
Konrad Krauß as Engel Raphael

See also

References

↑ "Faust" (in German). Filmportal.de. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
↑ H. G. Pflaum. "On the history of the German candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film". German Films. Retrieved 2008-08-27.

External links

Faust at the Internet Movie Database

Characters

Inspiration	Johann Georg Faust Johann Fust Simon Magus Theophilus of Adana

Legend	Erdgeist Faust Mephistopheles Pan Twardowski

Comics	Doctor Faustus Felix Faust Mephisto Mys-Tech Sebastian Faust

Seminal works

Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587 chapbook)
Cenodoxus (1602, play)
Doctor Faustus (1604 play)
Goethe's Faust (1808 play)
- Faust, Part One
- Faust, Part Two

Related

Angel on My Shoulder
Deal with the Devil
- in popular culture
Works based on Faust
To Hell with the Kaiser!
The Phantom of the Opera
G vs E
The Fiery Angel (1908)
The Rake's Progress (1951, Stravinsky)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Black Easter (1968)
Vi veri universum vivus vici
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Before Twilight (2009)
Stingy Jack

Films

Faust and Marguerite (1900)
The Damnation of Faust (1903)
Faust and Marguerite (1904)
The Student of Prague (1913)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Faust (1926)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
Faustina (1957)
Damn Yankees (1958)
Faust (1960)
Bedazzled (1967)
Doctor Faustus (1967)
El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
Mephisto (1981)
Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986)
Crossroads (1986)
Doctor Faustus (1982)
Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
Limit Up (1989)
Faust (1994)
The Master and Margarita (1994)
Spawn (1997)
H-E Double Hockey Sticks (1999)
Bedazzled (2000)
Faust: Love of the Damned (2001)
Fausto 5.0 (2001)
I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Shortcut to Happiness (2003)
Ghost Rider (2007)
American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi (2010)
Faust (2011)
The Wizard of Stone Mountain (2011)

Plays

Gretchen (1879)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (1965)
Temptation (1986)

Operas

Faust (1816, Spohr)
La damnation de Faust (1846, Berlioz)
Faust (1859, Gounod)
Mefistofele (1868, Boito)
Faust and Marguerite (1855, Lutz)
Faust up to Date (1888, Lutz)
Doktor Faust (1916–25, Busoni)
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
Reuben, Reuben (1955)
Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)

Classical music

Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814)
Faust Overture (1840)
Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges' 2nd movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847)
Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1853)
Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07, Mahler)
Faust Symphony (1854–57, Liszt)
Mephisto Waltzes (Liszt)
Gothic Symphony
Bagatelle sans tonalité

Other music

Albums	Epica Saga Epica The Black Halo Beethoven's Last Night The Black Rider

Songs	"Mephisto Polka" (1859–85) "Cross Road Blues" (1936) "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968) "Friend of the Devil" (1970) "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) "Take My Scars" (1997) "Faustian Echoes" (2012)

Television

Episodes	"Printer's Devil" (1963) "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" (1963) "Devil's Due" (1991) "Treehouse of Horror IV" (1993) "Bart Sells His Soul" (1995) "Hell Is Other Robots" (1999) "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003)

Other	The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978) The Collector (2004) Reaper (2009)

Musicals

Damn Yankees (1955)
Randy Newman's Faust (1993)
Success! (1993)
Faust (2003)

Prose

"Bearskin"
"Daniel and the Devil"
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
"The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
St. John's Eve (1830)
Auriol (1844)
Chasse-galerie (1892)
The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1898)
The Master and Margarita (1929–40)
Mephisto (1936)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)
None but Lucifer (1939)
Doktor Faustus (1947)
The Devil in Velvet (1951)
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
Gimmicks Three (1956)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)
That Hell-Bound Train (1958)
For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
The Damnation Game (1986)
Eric (1990)
The Devil's Own Work (1991)
Jack Faust (1997)
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)

Ballet

Faust

Art

Faust
Gods' Man

Poems

Manfred

Video games

Comics

Anime & manga

Category

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 182794768 GND: 4218299-2 BNF: cb16457491n (data)

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