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At the age of 77, Slovak film director Stanislav Párnický passed away on Friday. He became a director in the 1970s, producing movies mainly for Slovak Television... At the age of 77, Slovak film d ...
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, ch...