Agenda

One hundred years after its first cinema release in the Weimar Republic, F.W. Murnau’s "Faust" (1926) is unanimously recognised as one of the high points of 1920s German culture. The story, which has its roots in 16th-century Protestant folk tradition, has undergone numerous adaptations over the centuries – from Marlowe to Goethe and far beyond – and finds a new artistic expression in the language of film, enhanced by the possibilities offered by increasingly sophisticated film-making techniques, thanks to the rapid technological developments of the time.