Adapted from the tale by Charles Perrault, this splendid 1970 Donkey Skin Poster was used to promote the film. Perfect for your decor!
- Paper characteristics:
- 🎨 Canvas: global standard in terms of printing and imitating a “painting canvas” look.
- By default, the poster contains a 4cm white border for framing (frame not included). If you don’t want it, please choose “without white border”.
- ✅ Size: Multiple choices available. ✅
- High UV resistance.
- Color vibrancy maximum, glare-free.
- recycled paper, guaranteeing environmental friendliness.
- Poster packaged carefully and delivered in a protective tube for Total protection.
- FREE STANDARD DELIVERY.
⚠️ Frame not included. ⚠️
Description of this 1970 Donkey Skin Poster
Donkey Skin 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 Donkey Skin, 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 proved to be Demy’s biggest hit in France, selling 2,198,576 tickets.
Donkey Skin is being released on DVD in North America by Koch-Lorber Films. It is also available on Blu-ray as part of Criterion’s The Essential Jacques Demy Collection.
The king promises his dying queen that after her death he will marry only a woman as beautiful and virtuous as she is. Pressed by his advisors to remarry and produce an heir, he concludes that the only way to keep 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 wedding gifts in the hopes that her father will be forced to abandon his marriage plans. But the king succeeds in offering her dresses the color of time, the moon, and the sun, and finally the skin of a magical donkey that excretes jewels, the source of his kingdom’s wealth. Donning the donkey’s skin, the princess flees her father’s kingdom to avoid an incestuous marriage.
Under the guise of “Donkey Skin,” the princess finds a job as a pig herder in a kingdom. The prince of this kingdom sees her in her cabin in the woods and falls in love with her. Enamored with love, he retires to his sickbed and asks Donkey Skin to bake him a cake to restore his health. In the cake, he finds a ring that the princess has placed there, and is thus certain that his love for her is reciprocal. He declares that he will marry the woman whose finger fits the ring.
All the women of marriageable age gather at the prince’s castle and try on the ring one by one, in order of social status. Last among them is the humble Donkey Skin, who reveals herself to be the princess when the ring fits her finger. At the prince and princess’s wedding, the Lilac Fairy and the king arrive by helicopter and declare that they, too, are getting married.