Doctor Faustus
MovieTitle | Doctor Faustus |
User score | 5.3 |
Release date | Oct 10, 1967 |
Genre | Mystery, Drama, Horror |
Director | Richard Burton , Nevill Coghill |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | Venfilms, Nassau Films, Oxford University Screen Productions |
Run time | 93 min. |
Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.