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La Beauté du diable released in the US and the UK as Beauty and the Devil is a 1950 BAFTA nominated Italian fantasy film drama. 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. It was directed and written by René Clair. The film stars Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard , Simone Valère and Carlo Ninchi
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.
- 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
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