Panna a netvor

Panna a netvor

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Juraj Herz
Screenplay by Ota Hofman
František Hrubín
Based on La Belle et la Bête 
by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Starring Zdena Studenková
Vlastimil Harapes
Václav Voska
Music by Petr Hapka
Cinematography Jiří Macháně
Edited by Jaromír Janáček
Production
company
Distributed by Ústřední půjčovna filmů
Release dates
  • 1978 (1978)
Running time
84 minutes
Country Czechoslovakia
Language Czech

Beauty and the Beast is a Czech horror film directed by Slovak film director Juraj Herz in 1978. The film is a re-telling of the classic tale Beauty and the Beast. The picture is notable for its pervasive atmosphere of dread and the innovative decision to depict the beast as a bird-like creature.

For his direction, Herz received the Medalla Sitges en Oro de Ley at the Sitges Film Festival in 1979.

Synopsis

Julie is a bankrupt merchant's daughter who, as the only one of the three daughters, chooses to save her father's life. She goes to the Haunted Wood's Castle where she meets Netvor. Netvor has no qualms about killing Julie, but her beauty prevents him from doing so. Although Julie is forbidden to look at him, she starts to love him and the love rescues him from his curse.

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