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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1180

The Hen That Laid the Golden Eggs

190514 minFrance

Synopsis

A farmer wins a hen at a fair and discovers that it lays enormous golden eggs. Behind the apparent good fortune lies a fairy capable of transforming the henhouse into a palace. The sudden abundance draws the household into a world where ordinary farm life and magical wealth overlap.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 13:19
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Gaston Velle / Segundo de Chomón · Public domain

DirectorsGaston Velle

Inspirations

The Pathé fantasy expands La Fontaine's fable, with roots in Aesop, into spectacle and dance. Segundo de Chomón contributed photography and effects to the transformations.

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