Panna a netvor is a re-telling of a classic tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve.
 The film is a re-telling of the classic tale "Beauty and the Beast". 
Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bte ) is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in "La Jeune Amricaine et les contes marins" ("The Young American and Marine Tales"). 
