Once Upon a Time (1933)
- Original title
- Il était une fois
- Directed by
- Léonce Perret
- Genre
- drama film, thriller film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A romantic drama unfolds as tensions rise between theater and film crews working together on a production. The story follows performers and technicians caught in a clash of creative methods.
dramatictheatricalconflict-drivenstudio-boundromanticearnestclassicalstaged
What happens
Once Upon a Time (French: Il était une fois) is a 1933 French drama film directed by Léonce Perret and starring Gaby Morlay, André Luguet and Andrée Ducret. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne. According to Perret's biographer, critics found that the film, based on a play by Francis de Croisset, "bordered on the conflict between theatre technicians and film studio technicians". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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