Doctor Faustus

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

Cast

Jon Finch

as Adrian Leverkühn

André Heller

as Satan

Hanns Zischler

as Dr. Serenius

Margot Hielscher

as Senatorin Rodde

Siemen Rühaak

as Schwertfeger

Lothar-Günther Buchheim

as Dr. Erasmi

Marie-Hélène Breillat

as Marie Godeau

Gaby Dohm

as Elisabeth Leverkühn - Adrians Mutter

Heinz Weiss

as Jonathan Leverkühn

Balduin Baas

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