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The Real Beauty and the Beast

2013Directed by Julian Pölsler

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Runtime
46m

About The Real Beauty and the Beast

  • Documentary

Synopsis

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform one man into a national sensation and iconic fairy-tale character. His name: Petrus Gonsalvus, more commonly known today as the hairy hero of Beauty and the Beast.

Director
  • Julian Pölsler
Writers
  • Klaus Steindl
  • Andreas Sulzer

Principal cast

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