Les Visiteurs is a French

France

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 film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré

Jean-Marie Poiré

Jean-Marie Poiré is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is the son of the producer Alain Poiré.-Filmography as director:* Ma femme... s'appelle Maurice Jean-Marie Poiré (born July 10, 1945) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is the son of the producer...

 and released in 1993. In this comedy, a 12th-century knight and his servant travel in time

Time travel

Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...

 to the end of the 20th century and find themselves adrift in modern society.

Les Visiteurs was the Number 1 box office film in France in 1993, with 13,782,846 ticket sales. The publicity for the film used the tagline Ils ne sont pas nés d'hier ("They weren't born yesterday").