Faust (1960 film)
- Will Quadflieg: Fist
- Gustaf: Mephisto
- Ella Büchi: Gretchen
- Elisabeth Flickenschildt: Gretchen's neighbor Martha Schwerdtlein
- Edward Marks: Wagner
- Max Eckard: Valentin
- Uwe Friedrichsen: student
- Heinz Reincke: Frog
- Hans Irle: Altmayer
- Frederick G. Beck House: Brander
- Karlheinz Wüpper: Siebel
- Heidi Leupolt: Lizzie
- Gustl Busch: Witch
- Konrad Krauss: Archangel Raphael
Faust is a 1960 film adaptation of the resulting production of Goethe's Faust I by Gustaf at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus.
Genesis
Gustaf Mephisto had played more than 600 times in 40 years before he again sat as artistic director of the Hamburg Schauspielhaus in 1957 the fist scene and stood in his favorite role on stage. This production proved to be a huge success and became internationally famous with guest appearances in Russia and America. The then director of the Gloria - Film Distribution, Ilse Kubaschewski, tried persistently and successfully, to overcome the resistance Gründgens ' against a film adaptation. Gründgens could enforce his ideas for filming:
" There must be an object of this film ," Gründgens said, "to find the exact center between enactments and pure film. The result of a 30-year effort to Goethe's 'Faust' may not be abphotographiert yet softened by cinematic Interessanz. " Gründgens pursued with his staging a move away from any kind mysticism and vagueness, this goal should not be distorted at the expense of beautiful pictures.
The government was finally Peter Gorski, the adopted son Gründgens ' transferred.
Representation
The film was a compromise between abgefilmtem stage play and independent cinema. He is quite a cinematic way as camera panning and close-up and thus goes beyond the perspective of the theater visitor addition. He leaves but again and again the theater stage in the image to remind the viewer of the origin of the film image. The production is highly original factory, the text is gathered, but otherwise not changed significantly. Updates of classical drama can be found at most in Stage: So in the Walpurgisnacht a nuclear explosion appears. The actors do not speak like a movie, but as on the stage, as if her voice would penetrate the whole auditorium.
Special Presentation of Mephisto by Gustaf
Since Gustaf had the character Mephisto already played over 600 times, he developed a very unique feel for this role. First, the look falls on the same. Gründgens shows Mephisto as a pale man with red lips and sharply drawn eyebrows. In addition, the character instead of hair has a black hood. This gives him the perspective of the viewer the appearance of a non-normal man. He continues to play a character who, like you. Well as in Goethe's work Faust A tragedy. be seen, highly ironic and all criticism. In addition Gründgens shows through the smallest show gimmicks, like the figure of the devil is to be understood. In this sense, the figure of Mephistopheles dominates the film.
Reviews
" The famous " Faust I "production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg under the direction of Gustaf. The recording will not be a stand-alone film, but binds predominantly as a stage play. "