Hibernatus

Hubert de Tartas is a wealthy industrialist living comfortably with his wife, Edmée, and their son, Didier. Their household is thrown into disorder when the grandfather of Hubert's wife is discovered in polar ice, where he has spent sixty-five years in a state of natural hibernation. Once revived, Paul Fournier believes he is still living at the start of the twentieth century, and the family goes to great lengths to keep that illusion intact. Hubert, whose social standing and factory come to him through his wife, finds his position complicated by the arrival of the man who is the true owner of the family fortune. A slip of the tongue brings the deception down, and Hubert ends up escorting the man from an earlier era through the modern world.

Édouard Molinaro directed this French-Italian comedy, which followed Oscar in his filmography and preceded A Pain in the Ass and La Cage aux Folles. Jacques Vilfrid wrote the screenplay, and the cast is led by Louis de Funès as Hubert, with Claude Gensac as Edmée, Bernard Alane as Paul Fournier and Olivier de Funès as Didier.

Released in September 1969 and running eighty-two minutes, the film draws a moderate response on IMDb, where it holds a 6.6 rating from around 7,300 votes, and on TMDB, where it sits slightly higher at 6.7 from roughly 500 votes.