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Kráska a zvíře (1972)

Kráska a zvíře (1972)

Drama Romance Fantasy
Release Date: 1972, December 25
Directors: Antonín Moskalyk
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: Československá televize Praha
Cast: René Gabzdyl, Dana Syslová, Jana Šulcová, Jana Drbohlavová, Josef Kemr, Jiří Klem, Bedřich Prokoš

Overview:

An impoverished merchant, decided to sell a precious painting of his deceased wife, wanders into a fairy-tale castle at night, where he loses his painting and is given lavish gifts of clothes and jewelry for his two vain daughters. He then picks a rose himself for his youngest, Beauty. He is caught by the lord of the castle, a terrible monster, who sets a condition that the merchant either returns or one of his daughters voluntarily comes as a sacrifice for his father.

Keywords:

fairy tale based on play or musical