DVD,PAL, RUSSIAN IMPORT, Has Russian and French Language Only. Released by Prestige Film. Oscar is a French movie from 1967, directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Louis de Funès. It was remade in English in 1991, by John Landis, under the same name and starring Sylvester Stallone.Louis de Funès plays a big industrialist named Bertrand Barnier who discovers over the course of a single day that his daughter is pregnant, he has been robbed by an employee, and various other calamities have befallen his household and his business.