Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
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Les Vacances de M. Hulot
Directed byJacques Tati
Written byJacques Tati
Henri Marquet
Produced byFred Orain
Jacques Tati
StarringJacques Tati
Nathalie Pascaud
Micheline Rolla
CinematographyJacques Mercanton
Jean Mousselle
Edited bySuzanne Baron
Charles Bretoneiche
Jacques Grassi
Music byAlain Romans
Distributed byDisCina
Release date
  • 25 February 1953 (1953-02-25)
Running time
98 minutes (1953 version)
86 minutes (1978 version)
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (French: Les Vacances de M. Hulot; released as Monsieur Hulot's Holiday in the US) is a 1953 French comedy film starring and directed by Jacques Tati. It introduced the pipe-smoking, well-meaning but clumsy character of Monsieur Hulot, who appears in Tati's subsequent films, including Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967), and Trafic (1971). The film gained an international reputation for its creator when released in 1953. The film was very successful, totalling 5,071,920 ticket sales in France.[1]

  1. ^ "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)- JPBox-Office". Retrieved 10 October 2014.