Beauty and the Devil

La Beauté du diable Beauty and the Devil
original movie poster
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)
Release dates	16 March 1950 (1950-03-16) (France) 14 April 1950 (1950-04-14) (Italy)
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 in the early 19th century, 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.

References

External links

La Beauté du diable at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by René Clair

Feature films	The Italian Straw Hat (1928) Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) Le Million (1931) À Nous la Liberté (1931) The Ghost Goes West (1935) The Last Billionaire (1935) Break the News (1938) The Flame of New Orleans (1941) I Married a Witch (1942) It Happened Tomorrow (1944) And Then There Were None (1945) Man About Town (1947) Beauty and the Devil (1950) Beauties of the Night (1952) The Grand Maneuver (1955) Gates of Paris (1957)

Short films	Entr'acte (1924) The Crazy Ray (1924) Forever and a Day (1943, segment "1897") Three Fables of Love (1962, segment "Les Deux Pigeons")

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