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Doctor Faustus

Release Date:February 6, 1968

Running Time:93 min

Genres:Drama, Horror, Mystery

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Cast

Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor Richard Durden Andreas Teuber Ian Marter Maria Aitken Michael Menaugh Ram Chopra Richard Carwardine Patrick Barwise David McIntosh Jeremy Eccles

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Synopsis

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.

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