The Legend of Faust

1949 Italian film

The Legend of Faust

Directed by| Carmine Gallone
Written by|

* Léopold Marchand
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (play)
* Arrigo Boito (opera)

Produced by| Gregor Rabinovitch
Starring|

* Italo Tajo
* Nelly Corradi
* Gino Mattera

Cinematography|

* Arturo Gallea
* Václav Vích

Edited by|

* Niccolò Lazzari
* Fernando Tropea

Production
company

Cineopera

Release date

* 1949 (1949)

Running time

| 86 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

The Legend of Faust (Italian: La leggenda di Faust) is a 1949 Italian drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Italo Tajo, Nelly Corradi and Gino Mattera.[1]

## Cast

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* Italo Tajo as Mephistofele
* Nelly Corradi as Margherita
* Gino Mattera as Faust
* Onelia Fineschi as Marguerite - Singing (singing voice)
* Livia Venturini
* Cesare Barbetti as Siebel
* Gilles Quéant as Valentino
* Thérèse Dorny as Marta
* Guido Leoncini
* Gualtiero Tumiati
* Claudio Ermelli

## References

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1. ^ Goble p.758

## Bibliography

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* Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

## External links

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* The Legend of Faust at IMDb

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Films directed by Carmine Gallone

* Il bacio di Cirano (1913)
* The Naked Truth (1914)
* Senza colpa! (1915)
* Flower of Evil (1915)
* The Wedding March (1915)
* Sotto le tombe (1915)
* Avatar (1916)
* La falena (1916)
* Malombra (1917)
* The Thirteenth Man (1917)
* La storia di un peccato (1918)
* Redemption (1919)
* A Doll Wife (1919)
* The Sea of Naples (1919)
* On with the Motley (1920)
* The Faces of Love (1924)
* The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
* The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
* The City of a Thousand Delights (1927)
* Pawns of Passion (1928)
* Land Without Women (1929)
* Ship in Distress (1929)
* The Singing City (1930)
* City of Song (1931)
* My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
* A Son from America (1932)
* Sailor's Song (1932)
* Going Gay (1933)
* My Heart Calls You (1934)
* Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934)
* My Heart Is Calling You (1934)
* My Heart is Calling (1935)
* Casta Diva (1935)
* If It Were Not for Music (1935)
* The Divine Spark (1935)
* Thank You, Madame (1936)
* Mother Song (1937)
* Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
* Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
* Marionette (1939)
* The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
* Eternal Melodies (1940)
* Love Me, Alfredo! (1940)
* Manon Lescaut (1940)
* Beyond Love (1940)
* The Secret Lover (1941)
* First Love (1941)
* The Two Orphans (1942)
* The Queen of Navarre (1942)
* Odessa in Flames (1942)
* Harlem (1943)
* Sad Loves (1943)
* The Song of Life (1945)
* Biraghin (1946)
* Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
* The Lady of the Camellias (1947)
* The Legend of Faust (1949)
* The Force of Destiny (1950)
* Night Taxi (1950)
* Messalina (1951)
* We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952)
* Fatal Desire (1953)
* Puccini (1953)
* Madame Butterfly (1954)
* House of Ricordi (1954)
* Casta Diva (1954)
* Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)
* Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
* Michel Strogoff (1956)
* Tosca (1956)
* Carthage in Flames (1960)
* Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
* Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
* La monaca di Monza (1962)

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Works based on Faust

Folk legend|

* Faust
* Johann Georg Faust
* Deal with the Devil
* in popular culture
* Simon Magus
* Theophilus of Adana
* Erdgeist
* Mephistopheles
* Pan Twardowski
* Stingy Jack

Seminal works|

* Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587 chapbook)
* Doctor Faustus (1592 play)
* Cenodoxus (1602, play)
* Goethe's Faust (1808 play)
* Faust, Part One
* Faust, Part Two

Prose|

* "Bearskin"
* "Daniel and the Devil"
* Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
* "The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824)
* St. John's Eve (1830)
* Auriol (1844)
* Chasse-galerie (1892)
* The Sorrows of Satan (1896)
* Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1898)
* The Master and Margarita (1929–1940)
* Mephisto (1936)
* "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1937)
* None but Lucifer (1939)
* Doktor Faustus (1947)
* The Devil in Velvet (1951)
* The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954)
* Gimmicks Three (1956)
* The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)
* That Hell-Bound Train (1958)
* For a Breath I Tarry (1966)
* The Damnation Game (1986)
* Eric (1990)
* The Devil's Own Work (1991)
* Jack Faust (1997)
* Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009)
* The Last Faust (2019)

Plays|

* Gretchen (1879)
* Damn Yankees (1955)
* Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955)
* The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (1965)
* Temptation (1986)
* Il Dottor Faust (2018)

Operas|

* Faust (1816, Spohr)
* La damnation de Faust (1846, Berlioz)
* Faust (1859, Gounod)
* Mefistofele (1868, Boito)
* Le petit Faust (1869, Hervé)
* Faust and Marguerite (1855, Lutz)
* Faust up to Date (1888, Lutz)
* Doktor Faust (1916–1925, Busoni)
* Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
* The Rake's Progress (1951, Stravinsky)
* Reuben, Reuben (1955)
* Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994)
* Faustus, the Last Night (2006)

Ballets|

* Faust ballets

Classical music|

* Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814, Schubert)
* Faust Overture (1840, Wagner)
* Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges' 2nd movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847, Alkan)
* Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1853, Schumann)
* Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07, Mahler)
* Faust Symphony (1854–1857, Liszt)
* Mephisto Waltzes (Liszt)
* Gothic Symphony (Brian)
* Bagatelle sans tonalité (Liszt)

Other music|

| Albums|

* Epica Saga
* Epica
* The Black Halo
* Beethoven's Last Night
* The Black Rider

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Songs|

* "Mephisto Polka" (1859–1885)
* "Cross Road Blues" (1936)
* "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968)
* "Friend of the Devil" (1970)
* "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975)
* "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979)
* "Faustian Echoes" (2012)
* "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (2015)

Films|

* The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897)
* Faust and Marguerite (1900)
* The Damnation of Faust (1903)
* Faust and Marguerite (1904)
* The Student of Prague (1913)
* Rapsodia satanica (1915)
* The Student of Prague (1926)
* Faust (1926)
* The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
* Alias Nick Beal (1949)
* The Legend of Faust (1949)
* Beauty and the Devil (1950)
* Marguerite de la nuit (1955)
* Damn Yankees (1958)
* Faust (1960)
* Bedazzled (1967)
* Doctor Faustus (1967)
* El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969)
* Mephisto (1981)
* Doctor Faustus (1982)
* Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
* Crossroads (1986)
* Faust (1994)
* Bedazzled (2000)
* Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)
* Fausto 5.0 (2001)
* I Was a Teenage Faust (2002)
* Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
* Goat Story (2008)
* Faust (2011)
* The Last Faust (2019)

Television|

| Episodes|

* "Printer's Devil" (1963)
* "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003)

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Other|

* The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978)
* When the Devil Calls Your Name (2019)

Musicals|

* Damn Yankees (1955)
* Randy Newman's Faust (1995)
* Success! (1993)
* Faust (2003)
* Disco Inferno (2004)

Comics|

* Gods' Man (1929)
* Faust (manga) (1950)
* Doctor Faustus (comics) (1968)
* Faust (comics) (1987)
* Frau Faust (2014)

Art|

* Mephistopheles and Margaretta
* Paintings

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