La beauté du diable René Clair [videorecording]= Beauty and the Devil

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René Clair

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TextLanguage: French Summary language: French Original language: French Publication details: France Gaumont Franco London Films Universalia Film Ente Nazionale Industrie 2008Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) sound, black & white. 4 3/4 inOther title:

Beauty and the Devil

Uniform titles:

Beauty and the Devil

LOC classification:

PN1997 .B438 1950

Summary: From case cover: Mephisto, envoye par Lucifer, entre en contact avec Henri Faust, eminent professeur arrive au terme de sa vie, afin de lui voler son ame. Il lui offre jeunesse, gloire et richesse. Faust, desireux de tout reconquerir signe alors un pacte avec l'enfer. From IMDb: 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. But with youth, Faust's interest is diverted from science to women. And Mephistopheles, who has taken on the guise of the elderly Faust that was, sets many snares for his young friend's slippery soul...

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-A: DVD Cabinet A	PN1997 .B438 1950	Available	French audio. No subtitles.		001018

From case cover:
Mephisto, envoye par Lucifer, entre en contact avec Henri Faust, eminent professeur arrive au terme de sa vie, afin de lui voler son ame. Il lui offre jeunesse, gloire et richesse. Faust, desireux de tout reconquerir signe alors un pacte avec l'enfer.

From IMDb:
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. But with youth, Faust's interest is diverted from science to women. And Mephistopheles, who has taken on the guise of the elderly Faust that was, sets many snares for his young friend's slippery soul...

DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1; 4:3 fullscreen.

French audio. No subtitles.

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