Released Date:
1983-10-01
Languages:
Czech
Countries:
Czechoslovakia
Runtime:
83 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (497 Reviews)
Director:
Juraj HerzJuraj Herz (screenplay)
Ota Hofman (screenplay)
Frantisek Hrubèn (play)
Frantisek Hrubèn (screenplay)
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (fairy tale)
A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Julie is a bankrupt merchant's daughter who as the only one of the three daughters chooses to save her father's life by going to the Haunted Wood's Castle where she meets Netvor. He wants to kill her, but her beauty prevents him from that. Although she is forbidden to see him she starts to love him and the love rescues him from his curse.
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