This scene, very happily adapted from Goethe's masterpiece, features the learned Doctor Faust, the living incarnation of the thirst for knowledge, the thirst for enjoyment and the need to act. He gives himself to the demon, at least as much out of despair at recognizing the nothingness of science, as to exhaust the cup of pleasures. Carried away by passion, he seduces the innocent Marguerite whom he then abandons. The unfortunate woman, reduced to despair, kills the child born through her fault. Thrown into prison, Faust, after the night of Valpurgis, comes to join her there and she expires in his arms.

Source: Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé (Translated))

A spectacle unequaled in the world of motion pictures
This is the old story which has been handed down to us from time immemorial, and which was woven into a drama by Goethe and set to music by Gounod. The story of Faust and his temptation by the devil is so well known as to render a repetition of the story unnecessary. The film follows closely the Goethe dramatization, and is magnificent in its scenery, action and coloring. Like Il Trovatore, the music has been arranged to suit the film, scene for scene, and, with the musical accompaniment, forms a spectacle unequaled in the world of motion pictures. Faust is shown in his study, tired of life. Mephistopheles tempts him, shows him Marguerite, and offers to restore Faust's youth if he will sign away his soul. Other scenes show Faust at the Kirmess; show him changed to a youth again; show his love-making to Marguerite, his duel with her brother; Marguerite's final arrest, the loss of reason and death, and finally Mephistopheles claiming her soul. Undoubtedly this film will make a tremendous impression, and be thoroughly enjoyed by everyone who witnesses it.

Source: The Moving Picture World, June 17, 1911