Beauty and the Beast (1978 film)
1978 Czechoslovak film
- March 1978 (1978-03)
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Beauty and the Beast (Czech: Panna a netvor, literally "The Virgin and the Monster") 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
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
- Zdena Studenková as Julie
- Vlastimil Harapes as The Beast
- Václav Voska as Father
- Jana Brejchová as Gábinka
- Zuzana Kocúriková as Málinka
- Marta Hrachovinová as The Girl
- Vít Olmer as Rider
- Milan Hein as Groom
Reception
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
- ^ 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: měsíčník 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
- Beauty and the Beast at AllMovie
- Beauty and the Beast at IMDb
- "Panna a netvor" at the Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze.
- "Panna a netvor" at the Filmová databáze.
- Screen captures and production maps for "Panna a netvor" at Filmová místa.
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Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve's "Beauty and the Beast"
- La Belle et la Bête (1946)
- The Scarlet Flower (1952)
- Beauty and the Beast (1962)
- Beauty and the Beast (1976)
- Panna a netvor (1978)
- Beauty and the Beast (1987)
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- soundtrack
- Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
- Beauty and the Beast (or Blood of Beasts, 2005)
- Beauty and the Beast (2009)
- Beastly (2011)
- Beauty and the Beast (2014)
- Little Miss Perfect (2016)
- Beauty and the Beast (2017)
- soundtrack
- Belle (2021)
- My Sweet Monster (2021)
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- The Scarlet Flower (1858)
- Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)
- Lord of Scoundrels (1995)
- Rose Daughter (1997)
- The Quantum Rose (2000)
- Beastly (2007)
- Fashion Beast (2012)
- Zémire et Azor (1771 opera)
- La Belle et la Bête (1994 opera)
- Beauty and the Beast: Live on Stage (1991 musical)
- Beauty and the Beast (1993 musical)
- "Beauty and the Beast" (1983)
- "Election Day" (1985)
- "Beauty and the Beast" (1991)
- Disney characters
- Beauty and the Beast (Disney franchise)
- The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast
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