Mon Oncle - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Mon Oncle"

Mon oncle (1958)

Timing: 1:58 (118 min)

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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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