This is the 1926 silent film FAUST by director F.W. Murnau who is best known for Nosferatu. Faust is equally impressive tho often overlooked, with some remarkable visuals, solid acting, a truly sinister villain, and an epic tale of love, loss and evil.
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books after failing to stop death; Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust, first with insight into treating the plague and then with a return to youth.
Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage - with original German text and English subtitles:
