The Beauty of the Devil

The Beauty of the Devil (1950)

La Beauté du diable

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...

Date of release
1950-03-16
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (68)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
Director
René Clair

Casting

Interesting facts

La Beauté du diable 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 Mephistopheles. It is loosely adapted from the classic early 19th-century verse play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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