Faust (1960 film)

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| name = Faust

| image = Faust-1960-poster.jpg

| caption =

| director = {{ubl|Peter Gorski|Gustaf Gründgens (uncredited)}}

| producer = {{ubl|Ilse Kubaschewski|Walter Traut}}

| writer = Johann Wolfgang Goethe

| starring = Will Quadflieg

| music =

| cinematography = Günther Anders

| editing =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1960|5|25|df=yes}}

| runtime = 128 minutes

| country = West Germany

| language = German

| budget =

}}

Faust is a 1960 West German theatrical film directed by Peter Gorski. It is based on Goethe's Faust (1808) and adapted from the theater production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. It stars Peter Gorski's adoptive father Gustaf Gründgens as Mephistopheles and Will Quadflieg as Faust, and was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not receive a nomination.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/df/b8/Uebersicht,,,,,,,,A32DAF2EBD19469995A6E10E85BF89A6,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.html|title=Faust|publisher=Filmportal.de|language=de|access-date=2008-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527003516/http://www.filmportal.de/df/b8/Uebersicht,,,,,,,,A32DAF2EBD19469995A6E10E85BF89A6,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.html|archive-date=2009-05-27|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |author=H. G. Pflaum |title=On the history of the German candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film |publisher=German Films |url=http://www.german-films.de/en/germanfilmsquaterly/previousissues/topicalsubjects/focuson/thetindrum-alonevictor/index.html |access-date=2008-08-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070813145148/http://www.german-films.de/en/germanfilmsquaterly/previousissues/topicalsubjects/focuson/thetindrum-alonevictor/index.html |archive-date=2007-08-13 }} The film also won a Deutscher Filmpreis (transl.: German Movie Award) for an Outstanding Documentary or Cultural Film in 1961.