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Faust and the Devil

Faust and the Devil

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 7, 1949

Runtime

1h 27m

Genres

Music, Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

La leggenda di Faust

Production Companies

Cineopera, Columbia Pictures

Director

Carmine Gallone

Description

Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.