Donkey Skin (French: Peau d'âne; also known in English as Once Upon a Time and The Magic Donkey) is a 1970 French musical fantasy romance comedy film directed by Jacques Demy, based on Donkeyskin, a 1695 fairy tale by Charles Perrault about a king who wishes to …

" Donkeyskin " (French: Peau d'Âne) is a French literary fairytale written in verse by Charles Perrault. It was first published in 1695 in a small volume and republished in 1697 in Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé. [1] .

Donkey Skin: Directed by Jacques Demy. With Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin, Micheline Presle. A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.

Catherine Deneuve as the disguised princess in a screenshot from the 1970 French film Peau d’âne. The film is know in English as Donkey Skin, Once Upon a Time and The Magic Donkey. "Donkeyskin" (French: "Peau d'âne") is a French fairy tale.

One day the young prince, seeking adventure from court yard to court yard, came to the obscure hallway where Donkey Skin had her humble room. By chance he put his eye to the key hole. It was a feast-day and Donkey Skin had put on her dress of gold and diamonds which shone as brightly as the sun.

Once upon a time there lived a king who was the most powerful ruler on earth. Gende in peace and terrifying in war, he had no rivals. While his neighbors feared him, his subjects were...

Now, as the young lady flees to the nearby village disguised as an unkempt scullery maid wearing the foul skin of a donkey, a chance encounter with the handsome Red Prince of the neighbouring kingdom will pave the way for an unlikely romance, and a quixotic quest in the name of love.

A topsy-turvy riches-to-rags fable with songs by Michel Legrand, Donkey Skin creates a tactile fantasy world that’s perched on the border between the earnest and the satiric, and features Delphine Seyrig in a delicious supporting role as a fashionable fairy godmother.

Binding that with a beyond creepy father, literal donkey skin, a donkey that poops jewels, and a HELICOPTER. This is entirely a gorgeous musical with some terrifying undertone, and a spectacle...

Jacques Demy’s biggest box office success, and to this day a holiday classic in France, Donkey Skin sees Catherine Deneuve’s princess fleeing an incestuous marriage to her father with the help of her feminist fairy godmother, played by a luminous Seyrig.