Beauty and the Devil

La Beauté du diable Beauty and the Devil
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Directed by	René Clair
Produced by	Salvo D'Angelo
Written by	René Clair Armand Salacrou
Starring	Michel Simon Gérard Philipe Nicole Besnard Simone Valère Carlo Ninchi
Music by	Roman Vlad
Cinematography	Michel Kelber
Edited by	James Cuenet
Distributed by	Les Films Corona (France) ENIC (Italy) Arthur Davis Assoc. (US)
Release dates	March 16, 1950 (France) April 14 (Italy) August 25, 1952 (US)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	France, Italy
Language	French

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 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.

Cast

• Michel Simon as Mephistopheles / Old Professor Henri Faust
• Gérard Philipe as Young Henri Faust / Young-looking Mephistopheles
• Simone Valère as La Princesse
• Carlo Ninchi as Le Prince
• Nicole Besnard as Marguerite, the gypsy girl
• Gaston Modot as Gypsy
• Raymond Cordy as Antoine, the servant
• Tullio Carminati as Le Diplomate
• Paolo Stoppa as Official

Awards

The film was nominated or Best Film at the 1951 BAFTA Awards and won two awards at the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists with a Silver Ribbon Best Actor award going to Michel Simon and best Best Production Design to Aldo Tommasini and Léon Barsacq.

External links

• La Beauté du diable at IMDb