Editing Faust (section)

== Cinematic adaptations ==
=== Early films ===
[[File:Faust aux enfers (1903).webm|thumb|''[[The Damnation of Faust (film)|The Damnation of Faust]]'' (1903), directed by [[Georges Méliès]]]]
* ''Faust and Marguerite,'' a short copyrighted by Edison Manufacturing Co. in 1900<ref>{{cite web |title=Faust and Marguerite |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/00694201/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=June 1, 2022}}</ref>
* ''Faust'', an obscure (now lost) 1921 American silent film directed by Frederick A. Todd<ref name=Workman-Howarth-2016>{{cite book |last1=Workman |first1=Christopher |last2=Howarth |first2=Troy |year=2016 |title=Tome of Terror: Horror films of the silent era |publisher=Midnight Marquee Press |isbn=978-1-936168-68-2 |pages=235, 249 }}</ref>{{rp|style=ama|page= 235}}
* ''Faust'', a 14&nbsp;minute-long 1922 British silent film directed by [[Challis Sanderson]]<ref name=Workman-Howarth-2016/>{{rp|style=ama|page= 249}}
* ''Faust'', a 1922 French silent film directed by [[Gérard Bourgeois]], regarded as the first ever [[3D film|3-D film]]<ref name=Workman-Howarth-2016/>

=== Murnau's ''Faust'' ===
[[F.W. Murnau]], director of the classic ''[[Nosferatu]]'', directed a silent version of ''[[Faust (1926 film)|Faust]]'' that premiered in 1926. Murnau's film featured special effects that were remarkable for the era.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=F.W. Murnau (German director) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/F-W-Murnau |lang=en |access-date=2019-06-16 }}</ref> In one scene, Mephisto towers over a town, dark wings spread wide, as a fog rolls in bringing the plague. In another, an extended montage sequence shows Faust, mounted behind Mephisto, riding through the heavens, and the camera view, effectively swooping through quickly changing panoramic backgrounds, courses past snowy mountains, high promontories and cliffs, and waterfalls.

In the Murnau version of the tale, the aging bearded scholar and alchemist is disillusioned by the palpable failure of his supposed cure for a plague that has stricken his town. Faust renounces his many years of hard travail and studies in alchemy. In his despair, he hauls all his bound volumes by armloads onto a growing pyre, intending to burn them. However, a wind turns over a few cabalistic leaves, and one of the books' pages catches Faust's eye. Their words contain a prescription for how to invoke the dreadful dark forces.

Faust heeds these recipes and begins enacting the mystic protocols: On a hill, alone, summoning Mephisto, certain forces begin to convene, and Faust in a state of growing trepidation hesitates, and begins to withdraw; he flees along a winding, twisting pathway, returning to his study chambers. At pauses along this retreat, though, he meets a reappearing figure. Each time, it doffs its hat in a greeting that is Mephisto confronting him. Mephisto overcomes Faust's reluctance to sign a long binding pact with the invitation that Faust may try on these powers, just for one day, and without obligation to longer terms. Upon the end of that day, the sands of twenty-four hours having run out, after Faust's having been restored to youth and, helped by his servant Mephisto to steal a beautiful woman from her wedding feast, Faust is tempted so much that he agrees to sign a pact for eternity (which is to say when, in due course, his time runs out). Eventually Faust becomes bored with the pursuit of pleasure and returns home, where he falls in love with the beautiful and innocent Gretchen. His corruption (enabled, or embodied, through the forms of Mephisto) ultimately ruins both their lives, though there is still a chance for redemption in the end.

Similarities to Goethe's Faust include the classic tale of a man who sold his soul to the Devil, the same Mephisto wagering with an angel to corrupt the soul of Faust, the plague sent by Mephisto on Faust's small town, and the familiar cliffhanger with Faust unable to find a cure for the Plague, and therefore turning to Mephisto, renouncing God, the angel, and science alike.

=== Post-war === 
Films published after 1945. 

; ''[[La Beauté du diable]]'' [''The Beauty of the Devil''] : Directed by [[René Clair]], 1950  – An adaptation in which [[Michel Simon]] plays a [[dual role]] as Mephistopheles and the older Faust, with [[Gérard Philipe]] playing Faust as transformed into a youthful form.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/176360-the-beauty-of-the-devil-2495709614.html|last=Khan|first=Imran|title='The Beauty and the Devil' and the Visual Feast|website=[[PopMatters]]|date=18 November 2013|accessdate=12 March 2021}}</ref>
'''''[[Woe to the Young]]''''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: ''Αλίμονο στους νέους'')

Directed by [[Alekos Sakellarios]], 1961 – The story of a rich old man ([[Dimitris Horn]]), who wants to be young again so as to marry a young girl ([[Maro Kontou]]), and makes a deal with the Devil.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SUNDAY 02/07/2023 |url=https://program.ert.gr/details-en.asp?pid=3882783&chid=11 |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=[[Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation|ERT]] World}}</ref>
; ''[[Doctor Faustus (1967 film)|Doctor Faustus]]'' : Directed by [[Richard Burton]] and [[Nevill Coghill]], 1967 – A British horror film adaptation of the 1588 [[Christopher Marlowe]] play ''[[Doctor Faustus (play)|The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bevington |first=David |year=2010 |editor=Deats, Sara Munson |title=Doctor Faustus: A critical guide |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-84706-138-6 |pages=41–71 |chapter=The performance history |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uucb6cjjnFUC&pg=PA51}}</ref>

; ''[[Phantom of the Paradise]]'' : Directed by [[Brian DePalma]], 1974 – A vain rock impresario, who has sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for eternal youth, corrupts and destroys a brilliant but unsuccessful songwriter and a beautiful ingenue.

; ''[[Mephisto (1981 film)|Mephisto]]'' : Directed by [[István Szabó]], 1981 – Portrays an actor in 1930s Germany who aligns himself with the [[Nazi]] party for prestige.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Cinema of István Szabó: Visions of Europe|last=Cunningham|first=John|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|location=New York City|year=2014|isbn=978-0-231-17199-1|pages=157|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1UZBQAAQBAJ}}</ref>

; ''[[Lekce Faust]]'' (''Faust'') : Directed by [[Jan Švankmajer]], 1994 – The source material of Švankmajer's film is the Faust legend; including traditional Czech puppet show versions, this film production uses a variety of cinematic formats, such as stop-motion photography animation and claymation.

; ''[[Faust (2011 film)|Faust]]'' : Directed by [[Aleksandr Sokurov]], 2011 – German-language film starring Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk.

; ''[[American Satan]]'' : Directed by [[Ash Avildsen]], 2017 – A rock and roll modern retelling of the Faust legend starring [[Andy Biersack]] as Johnny Faust.<ref>
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 |title=American Satan (2017)
 |website=[[Internet Movie Database]] (imdb.com)
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 |access-date=5 May 2018 |url-status=live
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505153628/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5451690/plotsummary
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</ref>

; ''[[The Last Faust]]'' : Directed by [[Philipp Humm]], 2019 – a contemporary feature art film directly based on Goethe's [[Faust, Part One|''Faust'', Part One]] and [[Faust, Part Two|''Faust'', Part Two]].<ref>
{{cite web
 |title=The Last Faust
 |website=[[The Internet Movie Database]] (imdb.com)
 |date=2 December 2019
 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8871254/
 |lang=en |access-date=2019-12-12
}}
</ref> The film is the first filmed version of ''Faust''&nbsp;I and ''Faust''&nbsp;II as well as a part of Humm's [[Gesamtkunstwerk]], an art project with over 150&nbsp;different artworks such as paintings, photos, sculptures, drawings and an illustrated novella.<ref>
{{cite news
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 |date=2019-11-29
 |title=The Last Faust: Steven Berkoff stars in Philipp Humm's take on Goethe
 |newspaper=[[Financial Times]]
 |location=London, UK
 |url=https://www.ft.com/content/4a9403cc-110e-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a
 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live  |access-date=2019-12-31
 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/4a9403cc-110e-11ea-a7e6-62bf4f9e548a
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{{cite web
 |last=Humm |first=Philipp
 |title=The Last Faust – Ein Gesamtkunstwerk
 |website=philipphumm.art
 |url=https://philipphumm.art/the-last-faust/
 |access-date=2019-12-31
}}
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