Fantasy

Horror

Romance

Panna a netvor

Filmové studio Barrandov

Czechoslovakia

Český

Beauty and the Beast

Zdena Studenková

Vlastimil Harapes

Václav Voska

Jana Brejchová

Zuzana Kocúriková

Josef Laufer

Milan Hein

Marta Hrachovinová

Karel Augusta

Josef Langmiler

Vít Olmer

Jan Přeučil

František Svačina

Blažena Kramešová

Kamal El Rasheed

Awad El Seed

Musa Ahmed Mansour

William M. Ncube

Karel Engel

Jaroslav Klenot

Jindřich Sejk

Ladislav Hájek

Josef Tik

M. Pfeiffer

Miroslav Janda

J. Stehlík

Tomáš Cmíral

Magdalena Čechová

Gerhard Černač

Olga Fleischerová

Tomáš Hanták

Miloslav Horáček

Naďa Kašívová

Antonín Klepáč

Marie Libigerová

Eva Lichtenbergerová

Zdena Lutnerová

Jiří Melichar

Lubomír Mohyla

Veronika Orlíčková

Jaroslav Pechek

Helena Štěrbová

Václav Tůma

Jaroslav Vesecký

Taťjana Medvecká

Jiří Zahajský

Jorga Kotrbová

Viktor Růžička

Vladimír Labský

František Černý

Juraj Herz

Jiří Macháně

Karel Kochman

Karel Ješátko

Josef Vyleťal

Jiří Fajt

Jiří Klenot

Ladislav Lahoda

Olga Vyleťalová

Helena Vondrušková

Miroslav Buberle

Michael Poledník

Jiřina Bissingerová

Zeno Dostál

Vojtěch Kuthan

Zdeňka Čochnařová

Kateřina Lukášová

Karel Karas

Petr Drozda

Ota Hofman

Ladislav Rada

Jaroslav Lehman

Josef Hrubý

Josef Pavlík

Marcela Pittermannová

Anna Mejtská

Tomáš Kuchta

Jaroslav Šanda

Aša Teršová

Lubomír Votoček

Jiří Hurych

Eliška Moulisová

Miroslav Jíra

Petr Hapka

František Belfín

Jaromír Janáček

Irena Greifová

Petr Prejda

Věra Lukášová

Pavla Marková

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

František Hrubín

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I think of all the iterations of the Barbot story, this is probably my favourite. Not least because it is largely devoid of sentiment and has a gloomy sinisterness to it that I found creepy and yet quite emotionally charged. It all starts with the merchant “Otec” (Václav Voska) whose daughters could just as easily have come from “Cinderella”. Two are selfish and venal, the third is “Julie” (Zdena Studenková) who merely wants a rose from her father’s latest travels to fetch the dowry for his other two children. When disaster befalls that journey, he finds himself at the mercy of a mysterious but generous host who offers him food, shelter and treasure in exchange for the one thing he had left of value - a portrait of his late wife. About to leave, he espies a gift for his youngest and that’s what earns him the violent enmity of his host. He is doomed to die unless one of his girls agrees to voluntarily take his place. When he regales them all with his story and explains he must return, it is the young “Julia” who steals out on his horse and offers herself as the sacrifice. The remainder of the plot plays out engagingly as the tormented and the tormentor soon become inexplicably linked and the choices both wanted at the start of their association soon become the last thing either of them want now. The manifestation of “Netvor” is creatively inspired, and manages to avoid the more pantomime humanisations that other versions have used; the conflict faced by “Julia” is delicately portrayed by Studenková and there is something distinctly Gothic about the production design and the organ themes that accompany her exploration of his palace. Perhaps most intriguing of all: I couldn’t quite understand why having swapped so selflessly, her father made no effort to swap back! The monochrome photography serves it really well and without any hints of traditional romance, it’s dark, menacing and amongst the best love stories you’re likely to see as it reminds us about the adage of judging a book by it’s cover.

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Zdena Studenková

Vlastimil Harapes

Václav Voska

Jana Brejchová

Zuzana Kocúriková

Josef Laufer

Milan Hein

Marta Hrachovinová

Karel Augusta

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