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Jour de fête (1949)

19491h 27mdir. Jacques TatiFrenchFranceslapstick

With Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur, Guy Decomble, André Pierdel, Henri Marquet, Jacques Beauvais, Robert Balpo

Directed by Jacques Tati

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Jour de fête (The Big Day) is a 1949 French comedy film starring Jacques Tati in his feature film directorial debut as an inept and easily distracted mailman in a backward French village. Shot largely in and around Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, where Tati had lived during the Occupation, most of the actors were unknown and villagers served as extras.

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