Donkey Skin
– A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father...
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
20 Dec 1970
French
Jacques Demy
Charles Perrault (fairy tale), Jacques Demy
Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle
The education of a princess wrapped in a love story. A king and queen live happily until her sudden death. The king decides to marry his lovely daughter. She's willing, but the Lily Fairy serves as a social conscience, intent on thwarting incest. She instructs the princess to request a series of dresses impossible to make; however, the king's tailor succeeds. So the fairy plots the princess's escape, wearing the skin of the king's prize donkey. She's spirited away to be a scullery maid dressed in the noisome skin. A wandering prince sees her in the woods and is smitten. Can love find its course, and does the princess learn a lesson of life's hardships?
1 win.
Koch Lorber Films