The Duke's Good Joke (1908)
- Original title
- Pochardiana ou le Rêveur éveillé
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- fantasy film, comedy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 14 min
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man gets drunk and starts living out vivid, strange daydreams. The film shows his fantasies turning reality upside down in playful and unexpected ways.
whimsicalplayfuldreamlikelightheartedfantasticalsillycomicsurreal
What happens
Pochardiana ou le Rêveur éveillé (literally "Drunkenness, or the Awake Dreamer"), known in English as A Rude Awakening and as The Duke's Good Joke, is a 1908 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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