Faust and the Devil

Directed by Carmine Gallone

With Italo Tajo, Nelly Corradi, Gino Mattera, Onelia Fineschi and Livia Venturini

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.