Faust (Murnau, 1926) DOMESTIC version + FITTING Brock-score

Now, my special edit, finally IN ONE GO! Watch the spectacular result of an experiment I did to find a way to combine the ’domestic cut’ of Murnau’s Faust with Timothy Brock’s brilliant score, written for another version of this film, the so-called ’export version’. Let me explain a little bit further what I’ve done and how and why I did this. F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece-film ’Faust’ was released in 1926 and there are seven known versions of the film. The most well known version is the so-called ’export version’ with english titles, that premiered in december 1926 in the USA. That export-version is 10 minutes longer than the newly discovered ’domestic version’ a couple of years ago, the domestic version being the original ’German print’, the one with German titles that was shown at the time in German cinema theatres. The export print is slightly darker and softer, lacking the detail and clarity of the domestic version. Incidentally, the dif
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