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.
Directed byCarmine Gallone
Written byL�opold Marchand (screenplay), Johann Wolfgang Goethe (after "Faust"), Arrigo Boito (after: "Mefistofele")
CountryItaly
Runtime87 min
On screen
Italo Tajo
Nelly Corradi
Gino Mattera
Onelia Fineschi