Overview
A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on the novel Doctor Faustus
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Music
Music by Rolf Alexander Wilhelm
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Rudolf Blaháček
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Franz Seitz JuniorWriter
- Thomas MannNovel
- Original title
- Doktor Faustus
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 17, 1982
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
Cast
Jon FinchAdrian Leverkühn
André HellerSatan
Hanns ZischlerDr. Serenius
Margot HielscherSenatorin Rodde
Siemen RühaakSchwertfeger- Lothar-Günther BuchheimDr. Erasmi
Marie-Hélène BreillatMarie Godeau
Gaby DohmElisabeth Leverkühn - Adrians Mutter
Heinz WeissJonathan Leverkühn
Balduin Baas
Toni Berger
Veronika Fitz
Enzi FuchsWalburga
Michael GempartJohann Schneidewein
Herbert GrönemeyerDeutschlin
Elma KarlowaNinette
Wilfried KlausProfessor Institoris
Hans Korte
Gerhard Polt
Alice TreffTante Isabeau
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