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Beauty and the Devil
Beauty and the Devil
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BEAUTY AND THE DEVIL

La beauté du diable

Directed by René Clair
France, 1950
Fantasy, Romance, Drama

Synopsis

Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature…whereupon his old acquaintance Mephistopheles, servant of Lucifer, appears and grants him youth and a new life.

Synopsis

Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature…whereupon his old acquaintance Mephistopheles, servant of Lucifer, appears and grants him youth and a new life.