Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
- Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
- Comedy
- France
- 1953
- Director: Jacques Tati
- 87 min
- 35mm
- German Dub Version
- with Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla
Monsieur Hulot, a bourgeois petty bourgeois, drives to Brittany in his ancient car to enjoy his well-deserved vacation. He finds a room under the roof in a small boarding house and from then on tries hard to entertain the other guests and arouse their interest. He is particularly taken with young Martine, whom he shyly courts. But all his further efforts to find company among the guests cause misunderstandings and disasters.
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Supporting Film: A Night at the Movies
- A Night at the Movies
- Comedy
- USA
- 1937
- Director: Roy Rowland
- 10 min
- 16mm
- Original Version
- with Robert Benchley, Jack Baxley, Ricardo Lord Cezon
A Night at the Movies is a dumb little short film that features a husband and wife discussing which movie they should go to. When they get to the theater, they encounter one problem after another (they lose their tickets, sit behind large people, etc.).
Loan of the film print with kind support of Metropolis Archiv - Kinemathek Hamburg.
