Hibernatus

Hibernatus
Directed by Édouard Molinaro
Produced by Alain Poiré
Written by Jean Bernard-Luc
Jacques Vilfrid
Starring Louis de Funès
Claude Gensac
Bernard Alane
Music by Georges Delerue
Cinematography Raymond Pierre Lemoigne
Edited by Monique Isnardon
Distributed by Gaumont Film Company
Release dates
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
80 minutes
Country France
Italy[1]
Language French
Box office $25.3 million [2]

Hibernatus is a 1969 French-Italian comedy directed by Édouard Molinaro and written by Jean Bernard-Luc. It stars Louis de Funès as an industrialist named Hubert Barrère de Tartas.

Plot

A man frozen for 65 years is found in the ice of the North Pole by a scientific polar expedition. While he is brought back to life by professor Edouard Lauriebat (Michael Lonsdale), the man is identified as Paul Fournier, who was exploring the pole in 1905 and is now, thanks to hibernation, a 90 years old young man. Edmée de Tartas (Claude Gensac), born Fournier, is identified as the granddaughter of Paul and convinces her husband, Hubert Barrère de Tartas (Louis de Funès), that Paul must be given back to his family, while the government wishes to treat Paul as a research subject. After a kidnapping and a pursuit, the authorities reluctantly agree, but impose, for the sake of Paul's mental health, that his environment be the same as in 1905. As Paul thinks Edmée is his mother, Hubert must play the role of a man courting Edmée and Didier (Olivier de Funès), the son of Edmée and Hubert plays the role of a student living with the family. First under control, the situation gradually deteriorates especially when Paul's actions become a threat to Hubert's plan to marry his son to the daughter of Crepin-Jaujard, one of his business partners.

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