Faust and Marguerite (1900)

Directed by

Edwin Stanton Porter

Genre

silent film, satanic film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Rating

3.9 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man sells his soul to a demon for youth and love. The story uses stage magic and early film tricks to show the bargain and its results.

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What happens

Faust and Marguerite is a 1900 American silent trick film produced and distributed by Edison Manufacturing Company. It was directed by Edwin S. Porter and based on the Michel Carré play Faust et Marguerite and the 1859 opera Faust adapted from the play by Charles Gounod. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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