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Beauty and the Devil: Directed by René Clair. With Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valère. The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- René Clair
- 1952-08-25
La 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 set in the early 19th century, it is about an ageing alchemist , Henri Faust , who is given the chance to be eternally young by the devil ...
Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature...whereupon his old acquaintance Mephistopheles, servant of Lucifer, appears and grants him youth and a new life.
La 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.
- René Clair
Brief Synopsis. Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature...whereupon his old acquaintance Mephistopheles, servant of Lucifer, appears and grants him youth and a new life.
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The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.
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