Movielogr
Faust and the Devil (1949)
Directed by Carmine Gallone
Overview
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.
Length 87 minutes
Actors
Italo Tajo | Nelly Corradi | Gino Mattera | Onelia Fineschi | Lidia Venturini | Cesare Barbetti | Thérèse Dorny | Guido Leoncini | Gualtiero Tumiati | Claudio Ermelli | Gilles Quéant