Jour de Fête

1949 · 76 min · dir. Jacques Tati

Jour de fête 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. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.