Beauty and the Devil
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 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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| Directed by | René Clair |
| Written by | René Clair Armand Salacrou |
| Produced by | Salvo D'Angelo |
| Starring | Michel Simon Gérard Philipe |
| Cinematography | Michel Kelber |
| Edited by | James Cuenet |
| Music by | Roman Vlad |
| Distributed by | Les Films Corona (France) ENIC (Italy) |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Countries | France Italy |
| Language | French |
| Box office | 2,538,884 admissions (France) |
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