| La Beauté du diable | |
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| 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 |
| Editing by | James Cuenet |
| Distributed by | Les Films Corona (France) ENIC (Italy) Arthur Davis Assoc. (US) |
| Release date(s) | March 16, 1950 (France) April 14 (Italy) August 25, 1952 (US) |
| 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 around 1700, it is about an ageing alchemist who is given the chance to be eternally young by the devil Mephistopheles.
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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.
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