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1960 film This article is about the 1960 film by Peter Gorski. For other uses, see Faust (disambiguation).

Faust

Directed by	Peter Gorski Gustaf Gründgens (uncredited)
Written by	Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Produced by	Ilse Kubaschewski Walter Traut
Starring	Will Quadflieg
Cinematography	Günther Anders
Release date	25 May 1960 (1960-05-25)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Faust is a 1960 West German theatrical film directed by Peter Gorski. It is based on Goethe's Faust (1808) and adapted from the theater production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. It stars Peter Gorski's adoptive father Gustaf Gründgens as Mephistopheles and Will Quadflieg as Faust, and was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not receive a nomination. The film also won a Deutscher Filmpreis (transl.: German Movie Award) for an Outstanding Documentary or Cultural Film in 1961.

Cast

Will Quadflieg as Dr. Heinrich Faust / Dichter
Gustaf Gründgens as Mephistopheles 'Mephisto' / Lustige Person
Ella Büchi as Margarete "Gretchen"
Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Marthe Schwerdtlein (as E. Flickenschildt)
Hermann Schomberg as Theaterdirektor / Der HERR / Erdgeist (as H. Schomberg)
Eduard Marks as Wagner
Max Eckard as Valentin
Uwe Friedrichsen as Schüler
Heinz Reincke as Frosch
Hans Irle as Altmayer
Friedrich G. Beckhaus [de] as Brander (as F. G. Beckhaus)
Karl Heinz Wüpper as Siebel (as K. H. Wüpper)
Heidi Leupolt as Lieschen
Gustl Busch as Hexe
Konrad Krauß as Engel Raphael

References

"Faust" (in German). Filmportal.de. Archived from the original on 27 May 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2008.
H. G. Pflaum. "On the history of the German candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film". German Films. Archived from the original on 13 August 2007. Retrieved 27 August 2008.

External links

Faust at IMDb

Works based on Faust

Folk legend

Seminal works

Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587 chapbook)
Doctor Faustus (1592 play)
Cenodoxus (1602, play)
Goethe's Faust (1808 play)
- Faust, Part One
- Faust, Part Two

Prose

"Bearskin"
"Daniel and the Devil"
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
"The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
St. John's Eve (1830)
Auriol (1844)
Chasse-galerie (1892)
The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1898)
The Master and Margarita (1929–1940)
Mephisto (1936)
"The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1937)
None but Lucifer (1939)
Doktor Faustus (1947)
The Devil in Velvet (1951)
The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
Gimmicks Three (1956)
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)
That Hell-Bound Train (1958)
For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
The Damnation Game (1986)
Eric (1990)
The Devil's Own Work (1991)
Jack Faust (1997)
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)
The Last Faust (2019)

Plays

Gretchen (1879)
Damn Yankees (1955)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (1965)
Temptation (1986)

Operas

Faust (1816, Spohr)
La damnation de Faust (1846, Berlioz)
Faust (1859, Gounod)
Mefistofele (1868, Boito)
Le petit Faust (1869, Hervé)
Faust and Marguerite (1855, Lutz)
Faust up to Date (1888, Lutz)
Doktor Faust (1916–1925, Busoni)
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
The Rake's Progress (1951, Stravinsky)
Reuben, Reuben (1955)
Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
Faustus, the Last Night (2006)

Ballets

Faust ballets

Classical music

Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814, Schubert)
Faust Overture (1840, Wagner)
Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges' 2nd movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847, Alkan)
Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1853, Schumann)
Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07, Mahler)
Faust Symphony (1854–1857, Liszt)
Mephisto Waltzes (Liszt)
Gothic Symphony (Brian)
Bagatelle sans tonalité (Liszt)

Other music

Albums	Epica Saga Epica The Black Halo Beethoven's Last Night The Black Rider
Songs	"Mephisto Polka" (1859–1885) "Cross Road Blues" (1936) "Friend of the Devil" (1970) "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) "Faustian Echoes" (2012) "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (2015)

Films

The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897)
Faust and Marguerite (1900)
The Damnation of Faust (1903)
Faust and Marguerite (1904)
The Student of Prague (1913)
Rapsodia satanica (1915)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Faust (1926)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
The Legend of Faust (1949)
Beauty and the Devil (1950)
Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
Damn Yankees (1958)
Faust (1960)
Bedazzled (1967)
Doctor Faustus (1967)
El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969)
Mephisto (1981)
Doctor Faustus (1982)
Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
Crossroads (1986)
Faust (1994)
Bedazzled (2000)
Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)
Fausto 5.0 (2001)
I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
Goat Story (2008)
Faust (2011)
The Last Faust (2019)

Television

Episodes	"Printer's Devil" (1963) "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003)
Other	The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978) When the Devil Calls Your Name (2019)

Musicals

Damn Yankees (1955)
Randy Newman's Faust (1995)
Success! (1993)
Faust (2003)
Disco Inferno (2004)

Comics

Gods' Man (1929)
Faust (manga) (1950)
Doctor Faustus (comics) (1968)
Faust (comics) (1987)
Frau Faust (2014)

Art

Category

v t e German submission for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Germany (until 1990 West Germany)	The Captain from Köpenick (1956) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Arms and the Man (1958) The Bridge (1959) Faust (1960) Young Törless (1966) Tattoo (1967) Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969) o.k. (1970) The Castle (1971) Trotta (1972) The Pedestrian (1973) One or the Other of Us (1974) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975) The Clown (1976) The American Friend (1977) The Glass Cell (1978) The Tin Drum (1979) Fabian (1980) Lili Marleen (1981) Fitzcarraldo (1982) A Woman in Flames (1983) Man Under Suspicion (1984) Angry Harvest (1985) Men... (1986) Wings of Desire (1987) Yasemin (1988) Spider's Web (1989) The Nasty Girl (1990) Schtonk! (1992) Justice (1993) The Promise (1994) Brother of Sleep (1995) Deathmaker (1996) Beyond Silence (1997) Run Lola Run (1998) Aimée & Jaguar (1999) No Place to Go (2000) The Experiment (2001) Nowhere in Africa (2002) Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) Downfall (2004) Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (2005) The Lives of Others (2006) The Edge of Heaven (2007) The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) The White Ribbon (2009) When We Leave (2010) Pina (2011) Barbara (2012) Two Lives (2013) Beloved Sisters (2014) Labyrinth of Lies (2015) Toni Erdmann (2016) In the Fade (2017) Never Look Away (2018) System Crasher (2019) And Tomorrow the Entire World (2020) I'm Your Man (2021) All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) The Teachers' Lounge (2023) The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
East Germany (1949–1990)	Her Third (1973) Jacob the Liar (1976) Mama, I'm Alive (1977) The Fiancee (1980) The Turning Point (1983)

German submission for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Germany
(until 1990 West Germany)

The Captain from Köpenick (1956)
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
Arms and the Man (1958)
The Bridge (1959)
Faust (1960)
Young Törless (1966)
Tattoo (1967)
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)
o.k. (1970)
The Castle (1971)
Trotta (1972)
The Pedestrian (1973)
One or the Other of Us (1974)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1975)
The Clown (1976)
The American Friend (1977)
The Glass Cell (1978)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Fabian (1980)
Lili Marleen (1981)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
A Woman in Flames (1983)
Man Under Suspicion (1984)
Angry Harvest (1985)
Men... (1986)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Yasemin (1988)
Spider's Web (1989)
The Nasty Girl (1990)
Schtonk! (1992)
Justice (1993)
The Promise (1994)
Brother of Sleep (1995)
Deathmaker (1996)
Beyond Silence (1997)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Aimée & Jaguar (1999)
No Place to Go (2000)
The Experiment (2001)
Nowhere in Africa (2002)
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Downfall (2004)
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (2005)
The Lives of Others (2006)
The Edge of Heaven (2007)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
The White Ribbon (2009)
When We Leave (2010)
Pina (2011)
Barbara (2012)
Two Lives (2013)
Beloved Sisters (2014)
Labyrinth of Lies (2015)
Toni Erdmann (2016)
In the Fade (2017)
Never Look Away (2018)
System Crasher (2019)
And Tomorrow the Entire World (2020)
I'm Your Man (2021)
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

East Germany
(1949–1990)

Her Third (1973)
Jacob the Liar (1976)
Mama, I'm Alive (1977)
The Fiancee (1980)
The Turning Point (1983)

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