Mon Oncle

Name: Mon Oncle
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1958-05-10
Duration: 1 h 58 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis, Betty Schneider

Mr Hulot takes a precious, playful ... and purely premeditated look at modern times ...

Mon oncle (1958)

Timing: 1:58 (118 min)

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Release date

1958-05-10

Country

France, Italy

Production

Gaumont Distribution, gray-film, Specta Films, Alter Films, Film del Centauro, Cady Films

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$250 000

Revenue

$12 092

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Director

Jacques Tati

Actors

Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis, Betty Schneider, Jean-François Martial, Dominique Marie, Yvonne Arnaud, Adelaide Danieli, Alain Bécourt
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Scenario

Jacques Tati

Producer

Jacques Tati, Fred Orain

Operator

Jean Bourgoin

Composer

Franck Barcellini

Artist

Audition

Editing

Suzanne Baron
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Short description

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

What's left behind the scenes

Once during filming, Jacques Tati (born Yakov Tatishev, 1907-1982) and some of the film crew accidentally came across a friendly and playful pack of stray dogs. Tati ordered the dogs to be filmed and then edited the footage into the plot as a transition. When filming was completed, Tati personally placed an ad in the newspaper, offering readers to take the dogs (he called them "movie stars") home. And indeed, soon all the animals found new homes.
Having received an Oscar for "My Uncle" in the Best Foreign Film category, Jacques Tati was invited to an official reception where he was presented to the President of France, Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970). The Minister of Culture, André Malraux (1901-1976), jokingly introduced Tati as his uncle. De Gaulle, who had no idea who Tati was or what film he had made, congratulated him on his "very talented nephew," referring to Malraux – a writer, cultural theorist, hero of the French Resistance, and ideologue of the Fifth Republic.

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