Beauty and the Beast (Czech: Panna a netvor, literally "The Virgin and the Monster") is a 1978 Czechoslovak dark fantasy-horror film directed by Slovak film director Juraj Herz.

On the way to the village, he falls asleep on his horse while crossing an enchanted forest.

He wakes up in front of a disturbing castle, populated by strange creatures and picks a white rose in the park where he meets a bloodthirsty being (Vlastimil Harapes), half-man, half-falcon, who sentences him to death.

His only chance of survival would be for one of his daughters to sacrifice herself, who would have to agree to remain a prisoner of the Beast for eternity.

David Melville from Senses of Cinema wrote, "Panna a netvor has the capacity to horrify in the best and the worst of ways.