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Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (1912)

Cinderella or the Glass Slipper poster
Original title
Cendrillon ou la Pantoufle merveilleuse
Directed by
Georges Méliès
Genre
silent film, fantasy film, romance film
Country
France
Runtime
24 min
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This silent film adaptation follows a young woman who is mistreated by her stepfamily but gets a chance to go to a royal ball with the help of a fairy godmother. She loses a glass slipper at the ball, leading the prince to search for the mysterious woman it fits.

silentwhimsicalfairy-taleslow-pacedhistoricaltheatricalromanticfantastical

What happens

Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (French: Cendrillon ou la Pantoufle merveilleuse) is a 1913 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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