''The Little Mermaid'' (''Malá mořská víla'') is a 1976 Czech fantasy film directed by

Karel Kachyňa Karel Kachyňa (1 May 1924 – 12 March 2004) was a Czech film director and screenwriter. His career spanned over five decades. Early life He was born on May 1, 1920, in Vyškov, Czechoslovakia. His father was a government officer. His mother wa ...

based on the 1837 fairy tale of

The Little Mermaid "The Little Mermaid" ( da, Den lille havfrue) is a literary fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The story follows the journey of a young mermaid who is willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a ...

Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consist ...

. The film won the Main Prize at 1977

Gijón International Film Festival The Gijón International Film Festival ( ast, Festival Internacional de Cine de Xixón or ''FICXixón'') is an annual film festival held in Gijón, a city in northwest Spain. History The festival's origins date back to 1963. In the beginning ...

Cast

* Miroslava Šafránková as Little Mermaid *

Radovan Lukavský Radovan Lukavský (1 November 1919 – 10 March 2008) was a Czech theatre and film actor. Lukavský was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1919. He graduated from high school in Český Brod, before continuing his education at the Charles Unive ...

as King of the Seas *

Petr Svojtka Petr Svojtka (25 September 1946 – 9 May 1982) was a Czechoslovak actor. In 1968 he graduated from the Faculty of Theatre in Prague. He died in a tram accident. Work Theater * ''Romeo'' (W. Shakespeare, Romeo i Julia, 1971) * ''Benjamin ...

as Prince of South Realm *

Libuše Šafránková Libuše Šafránková (7 June 1953 – 9 June 2021, married as ''Abrhámová'') was a Czech actress. Her husband was actor Josef Abrhám. Her breakthrough was the title role in the 1973 film '' Three Nuts for Cinderella'', which is considered ...

as Princess of Neighbour Realm * Marie Rosůlková as Grandmother * Milena Dvorská as Witch * Jiří Ornest as Prince's aid * Dagmar Patrasová as Little Mermaid's sistere

External links

* 1976 films Czechoslovak fantasy films 1970s Czech-language films Films based on The Little Mermaid Czech fantasy films Films about witchcraft 1970s Czech films {{fantasy-film-stub Films about shapeshifting