Dr. Faustus

IMDb link: 0062898
IMDb rating: 5.4 (1,493 votes)
Genres: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Director: Richard Burton, Nevill Coghill
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber, Ram Chopra and others

Release date: 6 Feb 1968
Release year: 1967
Runtime: 93 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: deal with the devil, based on play, character name as title, psychotronic film, period drama, blood, skeleton, skull, maggot, invisibility

Plot:

Faustus (Richard Burton) 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 (Andreas Teuber) out of Hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living twenty-four 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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