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It was ironic that a film industry born out of the necessity of WWI and Germany's inability to provide American, British or French films in the years between and would go on to become Hollywood's number one opponent. The soundtrack of the restored version features only one each of cello, trumpet, violin, clarinet, and piano, and so sounds a bit thin, and also rather repetitious, but it is enlivened by intelligent quotations from both Gounod's opera and Schubert's setting from Goethe of "Gretchen am Spinnrade. These are myths in the sense that they are the exclusive property of no individual author, but belong in common to the whole culture as Murnau's subtitle, calling this a "Volkssage," reminds us ; and as such they are susceptible to wide variations in the telling. This guy played Beelzebub with some real relish. Faust with his regret has a great performance and the despair of Gretchen a very beautiful woman is touching.

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