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The Beauty of the Devil is a french film of genre Drama directed by René Clair released in USA on 25 august 1952 with Michel Simon
The Beauty of the Devil (1950)
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Add to a movie listLa Beauté du diable (literally "the beauty of the devil"; originally released in the UK and USA as Beauty and the Devil) is a 1950 Franco-Italian fantasy film drama directed by René Clair. A tragicomedy with allegorical meaning set around 1700, it is about an ageing alchemist who is given the chance to be eternally young by the devil Mephistopheles.
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Le mythe de Faust revisité par le réalisme poétique français... Au seuil de la mort, le professeur d'université Faust est plein de regrets. Méphistophélès lui propose alors un pacte : vendre son âme en échange de la jeunesse et de la richesse, il lui montrera aussi l'avenir.Actors
Michel Simon
(Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust)
Gérard Philipe
(Young Henri Faust / Young-Looking Mephistopheles)
Carlo Ninchi
(The Prince)
Simone Valère
(The Princess)
Nicole Besnard
(Marguerite the Gypsy Girl)
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