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Faust – Eine Deutsche Volkssage
''Faust – A German Folktale'' (German: ) is a 1926 silent film produced by Universum Film AG, Ufa, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman (senior), Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, William Dieterle, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother and Yvette Guilbert as Marthe Schwerdtlein, her aunt. Murnau's film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe, Goethe's Goethe's Faust, classic 1808 version. Ufa wanted Ludwig Berger (director), Ludwig Berger to direct ''Faust'', as Murnau was engaged with ''Variety (1925 film), Variety''; Murnau pressured the producer and, backed by Jannings, eventually persuaded Erich Pommer to let him direct the film. ''Faust'' was Murnau's last German film, and directly afterward he moved to the US under contract to William Fox (producer), William Fox to direct ''Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1927); when the film premiered in the Ufa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Pommer
Erich Pommer (20 July 1889 – 8 May 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European film industries in the 1920s and early 1930s. As producer, Erich Pommer was involved in the German Expressionist film movement during the silent era. As the head of production at Decla Film, Decla-Bioskop, and, from 1924 to 1926, at UFA, Pommer was responsible for many of the best known movies of the Weimar Republic such as '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1920), '' Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler'' (1922), ''Die Nibelungen'' (1924), ''Michael'' (1924), '' Der Letzte Mann / The Last Laugh'' (1924), ''Variety'' (1925), ''Tartuffe'' (1926), ''Manon Lescaut'' (1926), ''Faust'' (1926), ''Metropolis'' (1927) and ''The Blue Angel'' (1930). He later worked in American exile before returning to Germany to help rebuild the German film industry after World War II. Early life and career Pommer was born in Hildesheim, Province of Hanover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
