Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
- princess
- loss of loved one
- cake
- donkey
- prince
- surrealism
- imaginary land
- wedding
- king
- leaving home
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Catherine Deneuve
Princess 'Donkey Skin'
Jacques Perrin
Prince Charming
Jean Marais
The King
Delphine Seyrig
The Fairy
- Fernand Ledoux — The Red King
- Micheline Presle — The Red Queen
- Sacha Pitoëff — The Prime Minister
- Henri Crémieux — The Chief Doctor
- Pierre Repp — Thibaut
- Louise Chevalier — The Old Farmer
- Patrick Préjean — Allard
- Michel Delahaye — The Second Minister
- Anne Germain — Princess 'Donkey Skin' (singing voice)
- Coluche — Chanteur
- Rosalie Varda — Extra (uncredited)
- Directed
- Jacques Demy
- Written
- Jacques Demy
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 564 ratings
- Studio
- Marianne Productions, Parc Film
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