Faust and the Devil

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.

Director

Carmine Gallone

Writer

L�opold Marchand (screenplay), Johann Wolfgang Goethe (after "Faust"), Arrigo Boito (after: "Mefistofele")

Released

26 Apr 1950

Country

Italy