Doctor Faustus

1967

English

5.4

♡ 6

33%

based on play or musical

Richard Burton Director

Richard Burton as Doctor Faustus

Richard Durden as Evil Angel / Knight

Elizabeth Taylor as Helen

Maria Aitken as Sloth

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.