La Beauté du diable (1950)

Comedy Drama

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...

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Runtime: 96 mins Rating: 7.4

Cast

Paolo Stoppa

le procureur

Gaston Modot

le bohémien

Tullio Carminati

le chambellan

Michel Simon

Mephistopheles / Elderly Henri Faust

Simone Valère

la princesse

Gérard Philipe

Young Henri Faust / Mephistopheles as a young man

Raymond Cordy

Antoine, the professor's servant

Carlo Ninchi

le prince

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Crew

René Clair

Director

René Clair

Screenplay

Michel Kelber

Director of Photography

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