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Doctor Faustus (1967)
Directed by Richard Burton, Nevill Coghill
“The story of a scientist who sells his soul to the devil”
Mystery, Drama, Horror · 1h 33m
Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
Cast
Richard Burton
Doctor Faustus
Elizabeth Taylor
Helen of Troy
Richard Durden
Evil Angel/Knight
A
Andreas Teuber
Mephistopheles
Ian Marter
Pride/Emperor
M
Michael Menaugh
Good Angel/Bishop
R
Ram Chopra
Valdes
R
Richard Carwardine
Cornelius
P
Patrick Barwise
Wagner
D
David McIntosh
Lucifer
J
Jeremy Eccles
Belzebub
Maria Aitken
Sloth
Crew
- Director
- Richard Burton, Nevill Coghill
- Director of Photography
- Gábor Pogány
- Original Music Composer
- Mario Nascimbene
- Editor
- John Shirley
- Producer
- Richard Burton, Richard McWhorter
Details
- Release date
- 1967-10-10
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Mystery, Drama, Horror
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Venfilms, Nassau Films, Oxford University Screen Productions