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Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 10, 1967

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Mystery, Drama, Horror

User Score

53%

Original Title

Doctor Faustus

Production Companies

Venfilms, Nassau Films, Oxford University Screen Productions

Director

Richard Burton

Description

Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.