FairyTale: A True Story

Cottingley village, summer 1917. A Brownie camera lies on a sun-warmed picnic blanket. Two cousins, Frances and Elsie, snap a picture of dancing paper fairies and show it to adults whose war-weariness makes them hungry for wonder. A director steeped in British folklore turns a local myth into a sepia dream no skepticism can fully erase.

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Charles Sturridge directed FairyTale: A True Story in 1997. See Charles Sturridge's full filmography, where to start with Charles Sturridge, or where to go after you've seen everything by Charles Sturridge.

FairyTale: A True Story was released in 1997 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 99 minutes.