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Beauty and the Beast? Not quite; the Czech title of Juraj Herz’s 1978 fantasy is
Panna a netvor, which translates, much more fittingly, as
The Virgin and the Monster. This new release has a 15 certificate, a clear hint that the film wasn’t aimed at the under-tens. Ota Hofman’s version of poet František Hrubín’s stage script had been adapted as a children’s television film in 1971; Herz was initially unenthusiastic about directing a further adaptation, feeling that Jean Cocteau’s
La Belle et la Bête couldn’t be improved upon.
Panna a netvor makes for a darker, chillier companion piece to Cocteau’s fairy-tale.