German/Austrian TV adaptation of the famous fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast“. There is only one way to break the spell which has turned the prince into a horrible beast: a beautiful girl has to fall in love with the creature. As time is running out, the beast abducts the girl Elsa and takes her prisoner. He puts all his efforts into charming the girl. Elsa does not accept her fate, and the beast is not at all a gentleman with fine manners. The transformative power of love, which frees Elsa of her feelings of guilt towards her parents and which returns the beast to his former humanity, is at the heart of the film. Aimed at a family audience, the film's eerie scenes are balanced with humor and poetry.
Maximilian Simonischek
Arbo
Cornelia Gröschel
Elsa
Jürgen Tarrach
Wirt Hugo, Elsas Vater
Johannes Silberschneider
Pfandleiher
Christoph Letkowski
Ritter Berthold von Rabenburg
Karsten Kramer
Wenzel
Carolin Walter
Irmel
Nadine Wrietz
Magd Gertrud
