Beauty and the Beast (1978 film)

Panna a netvor
Panna a netvor
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Juraj Herz
Screenplay by	Ota Hofman ; Franti?ek Hrubin
Based on	La Belle et la Bete ; by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Starring	Zdena Studenkova ; Vlastimil Harapes ; Vaclav Voska
Cinematography	Ji?i Machan?
Edited by	Jaromir Jana?ek
Music by	Petr Hapka
Production ; company	Filmove studio Barrandov
Distributed by	Ust?edni p?j?ovna film?
Release date	March 1978 ;
Running time	84 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

Beauty and the Beast ( Czech : Panna a netvor ) is a 1978 Czechoslovak dark fantasy horror film directed by Slovak film director Juraj Herz . ^[1]^[2] The film is a re-telling of the classic tale Beauty and the Beast .

For his direction, Herz received the Medalla Sitges en Oro de Ley at the Sitges Film Festival in 1979. ^[3]

Plot [ edit ]

Julie is a bankrupt merchant's daughter, who is 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 the Beast. He has no qualms about killing Julie, but her beauty prevents him from doing so. Although Julie is forbidden to look at the Beast, she starts to fall in love with him and the love rescues the Beast from his curse.

Cast [ edit ]

Zdena Studenkova as Julie
Vlastimil Harapes as The Beast
Vaclav Voska as Father
Jana Brejchova as Gabinka
Zuzana Kocurikova as Malinka
Marta Hrachovinova as The Girl
Vit Olmer as Rider
Milan Hein as Groom

Reception [ edit ]

David Melville from Senses of Cinema wrote, " Panna a netvor has the capacity to horrify in the best and the worst of ways. Yet like any true fairy tale, it is unlikely ever to leave its audience bored or indifferent". ^[4]

References [ edit ]

^ Jack Zipes (27 January 2011). The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films . Routledge. p. 408. ISBN 978-1-135-85395-2 .
^ Bartłomiej Paszylk (8 June 2009). The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey . McFarland. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7864-5327-6 .
^ Film a doba: m?si?nik pro filmovou kulturu (in Czech). Vol. 26. Orbis. 1980. p. 125.
^ Melville, David (14 October 2019). "Beauty and the Beast (1978) ? Juraj Herz ? Senses of Cinema" . SenseofCinema.com . Senses of Cinema . Retrieved 19 October 2019 .

External links [ edit ]

Beauty and the Beast at AllMovie
Beauty and the Beast at IMDb
"Panna a netvor" at the ?esko-Slovenska filmova databaze.
"Panna a netvor" at the Filmova databaze.
Screen captures and production maps for "Panna a netvor" at Filmova mista.

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[Zipes2011-1] Jack Zipes (27 January 2011). The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films . Routledge. p. 408. ISBN 978-1-135-85395-2 .

[Paszylk2009-2] Bartłomiej Paszylk (8 June 2009). The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey . McFarland. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7864-5327-6 .

[3] Film a doba: m?si?nik pro filmovou kulturu (in Czech). Vol. 26. Orbis. 1980. p. 125.

[sensesofcinema-4] Melville, David (14 October 2019). "Beauty and the Beast (1978) ? Juraj Herz ? Senses of Cinema" . SenseofCinema.com . Senses of Cinema . Retrieved 19 October 2019 .

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