Hibernatus

• Louis de Funès: Hubert de Tartas
• Claude Gensac: Edmee de Tartas, born Fournier
• Bernard Alane: Paul Fournier
• Michael Lonsdale: Prof. Loriebat
• Olivier de Funès: Didier de Tartas
• Annick Alane: Mme Crépin- Jaujard
• Eliette Demay: Evelyne Crépin- Jaujard
• Martine Kelly: Sophie
• Jacques Legras: lawyer
• Pascal Mazzotti: Prof. Bibolini
• Claude Piéplu: Secretary General
• Paul Préboist: Charles
• Yves Vincent: Mr Crépin- Jaujard

Uncle Paul, the big plum is a French-Italian movie from 1969 directed by Édouard Molinaro on the play The Winter Sleepers ( Original title: Hibernatus ). Jean Bernard- Luc plays Louis de Funès an industrialist, the one by the emergence long-lost relatives of his wife is threatened his company and the family peace. A reissue title was Louis thaws; in the GDR, he appeared under the title The Winter Sleepers. The film opened on March 6, 1970 in the German cinemas nationwide.

Action

French scientists find trapped in the Arctic ice pack body of a human. They manage to give the approximately twenty-five year old man back to life.

At a party, the Hubert de Tartas ( in the German version: Paul de Tartas ), manufacturer of packaging materials, in honor of the engagement of his son Didier with Evelyne Crépin- Jaujard, daughter of a business associate, are pursuing Guest Reports stretched on TV.

The next day, Hubert is invited to an appointment to the Ministry of Interior. While he actually expected the award of the long-awaited Cross of the Legion of Honour, he is given by the Secretary-General that the Reanimated his wife's grandfather was. Tartas is less than enthusiastic, but he fears for his family entanglements, and especially for his company, which plans to open up new business prospects actually through the marriage of his son. But because the company basically belongs to his wife Edmée suspects Hubert that the emergence of another family member could endanger his position as a director, as he has been able to turn largely and exercise as he wanted because his wife does not care about business-related issues.

He is also reflected in a conversation with Professor Loriebat, who heads the experiment, on its side, as the claimed the re- awakened for himself and science. Edmée but would like to know their grandfather Paul Fournier in the bosom of the family. However, when she is being stubborn and her husband cut off both the marital bed as well as the decision-making power in the company, he changes his mind and wants the ancestors now necessarily bring in the family.

Since Loriebat refuses and the French government is on your side, Hubert and Edmée decide to kidnap the grandfather with the help of a psychologist from Loriebats rod. After a wild chase, is stunned during which the professor and exchanged with the re- awakened, they hide in a convent, where Loriebat must admit defeat finally, as Paul Fournier is awake and keeps his granddaughter for his mother.

Because Fournier but of the events surrounding his revival knows nothing and still think, if he were in 1905, a corresponding environment must for him, even to him to spare a mental breakdown can be provided. Thus, the Tartassche Villa, redesigned just for a lot of money in a modern style and again treated in the early days and also changes the surrounding district accordingly. Modern means of transportation will be replaced by coaches or early automobile models, put the inhabitants of the district in historic clothing and exchanged current newspapers against appropriate copies.

The masquerade works perfectly at first, but Hubert is hunted even at his first meeting with Fournier of this out of the house because he thinks he is his father, who had then cheated on his wife. So a new identity as worshipers of Fournier's "Mama " is found for Hubert, in which he can enter the house again, approaching his wife.

Under the watchful eyes of Fournier this works reasonably well, but Hubert is badly under pressure as he is in his own house can not move the way he wants and he has to realize that Fournier wants to control the fate of the family in its entirety alone. When then it turns out that son Didier, which is output as a young student in sublet his fiancee did not love, but the maid Sophie mimics and to make matters worse, the grandfather of his wife falls in love with Evelyne Hubert disengages. He falls Fournier with the truth about his supposed riding accident and showered him with the details of social and technological development since 1905.

As the incoming Loriebat and Edmée want to stop him, flees Hubert. The first consternation Fournier do not know if he should believe all and keeps rather his mother's supposed admirer crazy. However, when he opens a cabinet, he sees a television, in which he sees excerpts from a documentary about the development of aviation from the first pioneering days through to Concorde and military jets. However Supported by Evelyne, he takes the news on calm and relaxed.

Finally, he and Evelyne married, as the wedding party reached a message of Hubert, who has disappeared for days. Once in the laboratory of Prof. Loriebat, Edmée, Paul and the others must find that Hubert, has apparently gone insane, offset in the icy cold chamber itself in artificial hibernation.

Background

As with many movies with the popular French comedian the title was often repeated in the cinema and television analysis in Germany changed in this film. Alternative title are:

• The family fright
• The vixen
• Louis thaws
• Louis, the poison dwarf
• The Sleeper
• The Winter Sleepers
• The Thawed

Reviews

• Filmdienst: " Unassuming amusing family entertainment. ". Hahn / Jansen quote further from the filmdienst Review: " The fact that the main character even the smallest gag again plays out to the last detail and until the last helical turn, is of course ... Nevertheless ... this new " Baldwin " Plum not so some mature predecessor as has been plucked from the tree of unassuming serenity. "
• Frank Ehrlacher at moviemaster.de: " Pretty funny idea and mostly run under the direction of Eduard Molinaro, who was to celebrate later with ' La Cage Aux Folles ' his greatest success. Louis de Funes shines once more as overburdened hectic in all situations.

Trivia

Known as the Iceman in Germany glacier mummy received - in allusion to the film - in France, the nickname Hibernatus.