Doctor Faustus (1967)

Directors

Richard Burton

Cast

Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber, Ram Chopra, Richard Carwardine, Patrick Barwise

The story

University of Wittenberg scholar Faustus earns his doctorate, but his insatiable craving for knowledge and power leads Faustus to try his hand at necromancy in an attempt to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. Signing the pact in his own blood, Faustus bargains his soul to Lucifer in exchange for 24 living years with Mephistopheles as his slave. Mephistopheles proceeds to reveal to Faustus the works and doings of the Devil.

Genres

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