Beauty and the Devil
La beauté du diable
1950, Film, 95 min, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, French, France, MoviePedia score 68
Rene Clair - whose genius has created masterpieces...now brings his magic touch to the screen in a new achievement!
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...
Directed by René Clair
Cast
- Michel Simon as Henri Faust vieux - alias Mephistopheles
- Gérard Philipe as Henri Faust jeune
- Nicole Besnard as Marguerite - la bohémienne
- Simone Valère as La princesse
- Carlo Ninchi as Le prince
- Raymond Cordy as Antoine - le serviteur
- Tullio Carminati as Le diplomate
- Paolo Stoppa as Le procureur
- Gaston Modot as Le bohémien
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