Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
This extraordinary piece of artistry and craftsmanship integrates its dazzling special effects so seamlessly that they're indistinguishable from the film's narrative, poetry, and, above all, metaphysics.
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Don Druker, Chicago Reader
As atmospheric and menacing a work as the expressionist movement ever produced.
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, New York Times
Here is a picture which is as far removed from the ordinary movie as a Tintoretto painting.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
I sometimes feel, in this age of expert CGI, that I am being shown too much -- that technique is pushing aside artistry and imagination. The world of Faust is never intended to define a physical universe, but is a landscape of nightmares.
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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
Still a classic example of eye-popping excess at a time when German filmmakers were among the most innovative in the world.
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Cast
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Gösta Ekmanas Faust -
Emil Janningsas Mephisto -
Camilla Hornas Marguerite
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Werner Fuettereras Archangel -
Frida Richardas Mother -
William Dieterleas Valentin

