FR #863 | Movie | Comedy | France, Italy | English, German
Director
Jacques Tati
Writer
Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Art Buchwald
Cast
Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Plot
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.
FR #4206 | Movie | Comedy, Short | France | French
Director
Jacques Tati
Writer
Jacques Tati
Cast
Jacques Tati, Paul Demange
Plot
School for Postmen" is a 1947 short film directed and starring Jacques Tati, playing a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.