Simone Valère

Michel Simon and Gérard Philipe star in this imaginative retelling of the Faust legend. Approaching the end of his life, a prominent professor of alchemy makes a bargain with the Devil that will gain him youth, fame and riches in exchange for his soul.

In this film noir, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Melville's final film, a Paris police chief (ALAIN DELON) discovers that his nightclub owner friend (RICHARD CRENNA) also leads a group of bank robbers. When he's tipped off that the same robbers are planning a drug heist, the police chief races to defeat his two-faced friend. Meanwhile, the police chief has engaged in some double-crossing himself - by sharing the same woman (CATHERINE DENEUVE) with the man he calls his friend.