Faust and the Devil

Music, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Carmine Gallone

Status Released

Release Date 1949-09-07

Storyline

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.