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Slapstick prevails again when Jacques Tati’s eccentric, old-fashioned hero, Monsieur Hulot, is set loose in Villa Arpel, the geometric, oppressively ultramodern home of his brother-in-law, and in the antiseptic plastic hose factory where he gets a job. The second Hulot movie and Tati’s first color film, Mon oncle is a supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society that earned the director the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
Original Release
05/10/1958
US Release
11/03/1958
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jean-Pierre Zola | Charles Arpel / Monsieur Arpel |
Adrienne Servantie | Madame Arpel |
Lucien Frégis | Monsieur Pichard |
Betty Schneider | Betty, Landlord's Daughter / Betty - la fille de la concierge / Betty - the Concierge's Daughter |
Jean-Francois Martial | Walter / Monsieur Walter |
Dominique Marie | Neighbor / La voisine snob des Arpel |
Yvonne Arnaud | Georgette, the Housekeeper / Georgette - la bonne |
Adelaide Danieli | Madame Pichard |
Alain Bécourt | Gérard Arpel / Gérald Arpel |
Régis Fontenay | Braces Dealer |
Directors
Writers
Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, Jean L'Hôte
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jean-Pierre Zola | Charles Arpel / Monsieur Arpel |
Adrienne Servantie | Madame Arpel |
Lucien Frégis | Monsieur Pichard |
Betty Schneider | Betty, Landlord's Daughter / Betty - la fille de la concierge / Betty - the Concierge's Daughter |
Jean-Francois Martial | Walter / Monsieur Walter |
Dominique Marie | Neighbor / La voisine snob des Arpel |
Yvonne Arnaud | Georgette, the Housekeeper / Georgette - la bonne |
Adelaide Danieli | Madame Pichard |
Alain Bécourt | Gérard Arpel / Gérald Arpel |
Régis Fontenay | Braces Dealer |
Claude Badolle | Flea Market Dealer / Le brocanteur / Ragman |
Max Martel | L'ivrogne / Drunken Man |
Nicolas Bataille | Working Man / Un ouvrier |
Daki | Daki, the Arpels' Dachshund |
Dominique Derly | Monsieur Arpel's Clerk / La secrétaire de Monsieur Arpel |
André Dino | Sweep / Le balayeur municipal |
Edouard Francomme | House Painter |
Michel Goyot | Car Dealer / Le vendeur de voitures |
Paul Grimault | Bit Part |
Georges Loriot | Bit Part |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jacques Tati | Producer |
Louis Dolivet | Producer |
Fred Orain | Producer |
Alain Térouanne | Producer |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1959 | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film | Won |