Panna a netvor [Beauty and the Beast] ◾︎ Juraj Herz ◾︎ 1978

CČV/Bonton

Reviewed by dvdfreak

Published on Thursday 02nd August 2007
Last modified on Friday 02nd January 2026, 07:46:29 PM

Česká verze / Return to index

Label: CČV/Bonton (Czech Republic)

Region: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6

RCE protection: No

Copyright protection system: None

Disc type: DVD5 (the data occupy 4.30 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:27:37.01

Video: PAL

Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 non-anamorphic

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.24 / 4.90 / 10.00 Mbps

Audio:

Czech Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 224 kbps

Subtitles:

English

Menus available in:

Czech

Special features:

Filmographies (in Czech)
- Ota Hofman (4 pages)
- Juraj Herz (3 pages)
- Petr Hapka (4 pages)
- Zdena Studenková (2 pages)
- Vlastimil Harapes (1 page)
- Václav Voska (4 pages)
Photogallery (1:58, 18 movie stills)
Interviews
- Juraj Herz (5:40, in Czech)
- Zdena Studenková (3:54, in Slovak)
- Vlastimil Harapes (6:12, in Czech)
DVD-ROM features
- Screensaver & wallpapers
Other films available (in Czech)
- Animated (28 pages)
- For kids (7 pages)
- Films & comedies (32 pages)
- "Zlatá kolekce českých filmů" (37 pages)
DVD credits (6 pages, in Czech)

*difference between channels is -66.85 dB (0.05 %)

Severin Films / Blu-ray

Reviewed by dvdfreak

Published on Friday 02nd January 2026
Last modified on Friday 02nd January 2026, 07:46:29 PM

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Label: Severin Films (US)

Region: A, B & C (?)

RCE protection: n/a

Copyright protection system: AACS

Disc type: BD50 (the data occupy 45.54 GB)

Playback time (hh:mm:ss.frames): 1:31:15.23

Video: MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001

Aspect ratio: 1.38:1

Bitrate (min / avg / max): 0.00 / 28.99 / 37.88 Mbps

Audio:

Czech DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono* / 1,906 kbps

Subtitles:

English

Menus available in:

English

Special features:

Commentary by film historian Michael Brooke (in English)
Archival interviews with director Juraj Herz and actors Vlastimil Harapes
and Zdena Studenková (16:27, in Czech & Slovak**)
Short film "František Hrubín" (Tomáš Škrdlant, 1964, 9:13, in Czech**)

(All extras are MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p24/1.001, Dolby Digital 2.0 / 256 kbps.)

Notes:

"Beauty and the Beast" shares the disc with "The Ninth Heart," another film by Juraj Herz.

Only available in "All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Vol. 2" 13-disc set,
together with a veritable smorgasbord of other films and special features (full specs here).

To see the screenshots in glorious