German silent classic "Faust" to be screened Friday, April 13, 2012

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Still from German silent film "Faust"

ALBANY, NY (03/29/2012)(readMedia)-- The German silent classic, Faust (German, 1926, 116 minutes, b/w, silent with musical soundtrack, directed by F. W. Murnau), will be shown on Friday, April 13, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, the screening is free and open to the public.

One of the great achievements of German silent cinema, and replete with astonishing special effects, this adaptation of Goethe's Faust features major silent film actor Emil Jannings in a starring role as the devil Mephisto. Writing in The New Yorker, Richard Brody praised director F. W. Murnau for "an artistic imagination that isn't merely adaptive but even rivals Goethe's own."

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.