Faust and Marguerite
About Faust and Marguerite
Georges Méliès condenses Charles Gounod's opera Faust into a trick film. He plays Mephistopheles. Faust's bargain leads to Marguerite, and the pair are shown the tortures waiting in Hell. Jeanne Calvière plays Siebel.
Cast & crew
More about Faust and Marguerite
Star Film numbers 562–574. The French title is Damnation du docteur Faust. American release title: Faust and Marguerite. British release title: Faust. Wikidata times it at 15 minutes. It is Méliès's second Faust film.
Themes
Preservation
The Library of Congress paper-print copy lacks some scenes. A hand-colored fragment is in a private English collection.
Notes
- A copy, missing some scenes, is in the Paper Prints collection at the Library of Congress.
- A short fragment of a hand-colored print is in an English private collection.
- The Commons file is labeled an excerpt.
Scenes
- Mephistopheles shows Faust and Marguerite the tortures of Hell.
Influenced by
- Charles Gounod's Faust
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Damnation du docteur Faust excerpt)
