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Jean L'Hôte

Jean L'Hôte

Writing

Biography

Jean L'Hôte was a French screenwriter and film director. He worked on 21 films between 1958 and 1985.

Known For

Mon Oncle
7.4

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

Mon Oncle

1958
Without Trumpet or Drum
10.0

Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When he discovers the most peaceful of rivers, he decides to undress and bathe in it. At bend of the river he catches sight of another naked swimmer. It's a Prussian! Both men start bickering a bit: aren't they supposed to be arch enemies? But they soon fraternize. Unfortunately the patrol has not vanished in the haze and they hear it coming. Each man gets hold of his uniform and runs away in two opposite directions. The only trouble is that Fritz the Prussian has donned the French uniform and Leon the Prussian one!

Without Trumpet or Drum

1959
The Education in Love of Valentin
5.1

This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series of adventures with women (arranged by papa), Valentin finally gets married to a woman who appears to be as shy as he is. Things get complicated when his father begins an affair with her.

The Education in Love of Valentin

1976
The Counterfeit Constable
5.7

An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in the mouth from someone else's elbow. In the process he loses some front teeth and needs to see a dentist urgently ... this is only the beginning of a long series of adventures befalling our poor friend who doesn't speak a word of English and who nevertheless needs to return urgently to France to get married in the following days sporting a decent mouth !

The Counterfeit Constable

1964
Public School
6.0

A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean L'Hôte taken from his own novel.

Public School

1965
Le Huguenot récalcitrant
8.0

A historical and tragic backdrop: the dragonnades, the persecution of Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. And a comic situation: an insubordinate singer who taunts Louis XIV's soldiers from the top of his rock, driving Marshal Boutre half mad.

Le Huguenot récalcitrant

1969
Le Prussien
7.0

A German prisoner of wars stays in France after the armistice with the woman he loves.

Le Prussien

1971
Confessions of a Choir Boy
6.8

A twelve year old boy who lives in a small town where strict social codes are observed, joins the choir to get to know a young girl of his own age whom he has seen at mass.

Confessions of a Choir Boy

1977
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8.0

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Le Pèlerinage

1962
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6.5

The misfortune of a young man who tries to keep a rendezvous and finds himself a prisoner in a bell.

La cloche

1964
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8.0

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La France romane

1956
Le rescapé de Tikeroa
N/A

In 1939 a French policeman (Jacques Martin) is forgotten on a Polynesian island, during an administrative tour. When war broke out, he knew nothing about it and it was only when a German ship called that he learned of the gravity of the events. On the tone of comedy, this drama describes the relationship between this ex-policeman still imbued with administrative stupidity and the naive but joyful population of the island. The comedy prevails over the drama and the gendarme will not take long to acquire the joie de vivre of the natives.

Le rescapé de Tikeroa

1981
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N/A

Languepin criticizes the attitudes of motorists at the top of European mountain passes: they only think about taking photos, they don't even know which pass it is, they don't have time to look at the scenery.

Les Autogrimpeurs

1963
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N/A

A satirical observation of people enjoying the seashore.

Happy Days

1957