Peau d'Âne is a 1970 French musical film directed by Jacques Demy. It is also known by the English titles Once Upon a Time and The Magic Donkey. The film was adapted by Demy from Donkeyskin, a fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a king who wishes to marry his daughter. It stars Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais, with music by Michel Legrand. Donkey Skin also proved to be Demy's biggest success in France with a total of 2,198,576 admissions. Peau d'Âne is distributed on DVD in North America by Koch-Lorber Films, a subsidiary of Koch Entertainment. The King promises his dying Queen... that after her death he will only marry a woman as beautiful and virtuous as she. Pressed by his advisers to remarry and produce an heir, he comes to the conclusion that the only way to fulfil his promise is to marry his own daughter, the Princess . Following the advice of her godmother, the Lilac Fairy , the Princess demands a series of seemingly impossible nuptial gifts, in the hope that her father will be forced to give up his plans of marriage.
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| Release date: | 1970 |
| Directed by: | Jacques Demy |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mag Bodard |
| Editor: | Anne-Marie Cotret |
| Music by: | Michel Legrand |
| Cinematography: | Ghislain Cloquet |
| Screenplay by: | Jacques Demy, Charles Perrault |
| Genre: | Musical, Comedy, Fantasy |