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The Beauty of the Devil

03/16/1950

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1hr 36min

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Drama

,Fantasy

,Comedy

Rene Clair - whose genius has created masterpieces...now brings his magic touch to the screen in a new achievement!

STORY

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Michel Simon
  • Gérard Philipe
  • Nicole Besnard
  • Simone Valère
  • Carlo Ninchi

    Director

  • René Clair

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Franco London Films
  • Universalia Film
  • ENIC

    Production Countries

  • France
  • Italy

LANGUAGES

  • French

Cast

Michel Simon

Mephistopheles / Old Prof. Henri Faust

Gérard Philipe

Young Henri Faust / Young-Looking Mephistopheles

Nicole Besnard

Marguerite the Gypsy Girl

Simone Valère

The Princess

Carlo Ninchi

The Prince

Raymond Cordy

Antoine the Servant

Paolo Stoppa

Official

Tullio Carminati

The Diplomat

Gaston Modot

Gypsy

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