Jour de fête

Jour de fête
Directed byJacques Tati
Written byHenri Marquet
René Wheeler
Jacques Tati
Produced byAndré Paulvé
Fred Orain
StarringGuy Decomble
Jacques Tati
Paul Frankeur
Release date
  • May 4, 1949 (1949-05-04) (France)
Running time
86 min (black-and-white version)
78 min (color version)
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Jour de fête (The Big Day) 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.