cinemakk: PLAYTIME – TATIS HERRLICHE ZEITEN

PLAYTIME - TATI'S GLORIOUS TIMES

F / IT 1967 - 115 minutes - Director: Jacques Tati

Monsieur Hulot strolls dreamily through futuristic Paris and witnesses the monotony and rules of modernity. He is looking for a Monsieur Giffard, but through a series of misadventures they keep missing each other. Monsieur Hulot searches for him in various places, passing through an airport, an office building, an apartment and a restaurant. Each station seems sterile and uniform to him; made of concrete, glass and steel.

For Playtime , a huge backdrop city was built outside Paris by hundreds of workers within five months. Each skyscraper had movable walls to make it easier to set up and move the cameras. Tati-Ville, as it was soon called, had everything you need for a real city. Two power stations produced enough electricity for a town of 15,000 inhabitants. All the streets were paved, the traffic lights worked, as did the neon signs. Tati even took his perfectionism so far that he had the buildings placed on rails so that they could be moved back and forth as required.

Admission 6 €, Box Office only