Favorite movie: Beauty and the Beast

This is the story of a rich widowed merchant who had three daughters. Two of them, the two oldest daughters, were presumptuous and vain, and the youngest, whom they called Bella for their beauty, was, however, humble and kind. All had always suitors willing to marry them. But while the two older sisters rejected all the candidates contemptuously, since they longed to marry a nobleman, Bella received them and talked with them, even if she politely rejected them. A stroke of bad fortune caused the merchant to lose all his wealth, so all suitors disappeared, since money was the only reason to marry such women. Bella, however, continued to receive proposals, but continued to reject them. One day, the news came that one of the merchant's ships had arrived in port with merchandise. His two oldest daughters asked him to bring them jewelry and dresses, but Bella, his youngest daughter, told him that only with a rose would he make her happy.

Returning from the port, the merchant is lost in the forest and finds refuge in a castle that was nearby. In that castle he eats and rests, and the next day, just after taking a rose from the beautiful garden, a horrid beast surprises him and forces him to apologize.

The merchant begs to be able to see his daughters one last time, to which the beast responds that he can leave to see them once more, but in return, he will have to bring one of them to take his place. The merchant returns home and explains what happened to his three daughters, after which his youngest daughter Bella offers to take the place of his father, to the delight of his two older sisters and despair of his elderly father. Bella reminds her father that the promises have to be fulfilled, and that if she hadn't asked for a rose, nothing would have happened.