The peasant Adémaï, returning home, gets lost in the forest and knocks down a border post. In his haste to replant it, he installs it upside down.
Acting
Paul Colline's physical comedy as Adémaï—pure elastic-limbed genius.
Direction
Colline's tight comic timing turns one gag into escalating disaster.
Director
Paul Colline
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during early European cooperation talks, the film satirizes nationalism just as borders were becoming politically sensitive again.
Paul Colline directed, wrote, AND starred—a true auteur of anarchic French comedy, though he's nearly forgotten today.
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