Premiered in 1926, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s silent film was one of the most expensive productions of its time and featured a wealth of novel technical solutions. ‘The Faust film is magical. Goethe got to know the myth of Faust in a puppet theatre. There is a long way from the primitive tale of the puppet show to Goethe’s tragedy, but the journey does not end there. The sequel is: the Faust film,’ wrote the reviewer of Színházi Élet in 1926. The plot only partly follows Goethe’s classic, with some of the turns borrowed from the German folk tradition of the legend of Faust. The original music of this monumental piece of cinema, written by Werner Richard Heymann, a very popular composer of his time, was followed by many other versions over time. Playing now Müpa Budapest’s majestic instrument, László Fassang will create incidental music from improvisations and excerpts from popular or lesser-known works, as did the cinema organists of yore.