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<i>Beauty and the Beast</i> (1978 film)

Beauty and the Beast (1978 film)

1978 Czechoslovak film

This article is about the 1978 Czech film. For other uses, see Beauty and the Beast (disambiguation).

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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

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

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

  1. [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.
  2. [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. [3]
    Film a doba: měsíčník pro filmovou kulturu (in Czech). Vol. 26. Orbis. 1980. p. 125.
  4. [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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