Hibernatus

Five Funny French Films: Classics

After a man (Louis de Funès) is awakened from a 65-year cryogenic freeze he entered during an exploration in 1905, his relatives plan an elaborate ruse on their long-lost relative so as not to shock him with contemporary reality.

Tickets

  • $10 festival admission; $8 MFAH members, students with ID, seniors (65+)

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Generous support has been received from Franci Neely, Nina and Michael Zilkha, Melanie Gray and Mark Wawro, and Villa Albertine in Houston.

Hibernatus

Directed by Édouard Molinaro
(France, 1969, 82 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

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