Directed by:
Juraj HerzCinematography:
Jiří MacháněComposer:
Petr HapkaCast:
Zdena Studenková, Vlastimil Harapes, Václav Voska, Jana Brejchová, Zuzana Kocúriková, Josef Laufer, Milan Hein, Marta Hrachovinová, Karel Augusta (more)Plots(1)
From Juraj Herz, come this singular adaption of the classic tale - an altogether darker interpretation than we're used to. Light years from Disney, Herz's Beauty and the Beast (also known more provocatively as The Virgin and the Monster) follows the familiar story. Innocent girl presents herself as sacrifice to a cursed man-beast hiding in exile, and learns to live with, and eventually love her captor - but is transformed into something entirely more twisted and terrifying in Herz’s macabre re-imagining. Aided by wonderful set and costume design, superb cinematography and evocative score, this is a fairy-tale-turned-horror story from Czechoslovak cinema’s most wryly subversive artist. (Second Run)
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Blažena Kramešová
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Best movies:
Run, Waiter, Run! (1980)
On the Comet (1970)
Young Bohácek's Sufferings (1969)
Taťjana Medvecká
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Naši furianti (1983) (theatrical recording)
Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Jako bychom se ani neznali (1982) (theatrical recording)
Jiří Zahajský
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Hráči (1983) (theatrical recording)
Jára Cimrman Lying, Sleeping (1983)
Sňatky z rozumu (1968) (series)
Jorga Kotrbová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Racek (1996) (theatrical recording)
Young Bohácek's Sufferings (1969)
Miloslav Horáček
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Case for a Rookie Hangman (1969)
The Last Butterfly (1990)
Beauty and the Beast (1978)