''Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus'' (1966) is a fifty-minute film starring French ''nouvelle vague'' icon

Jean-Pierre Léaud Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (; born 28 May 1944) is a French actor, known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's series of films about that character, beginning with ''The 400 Blows'' (1959). He also worked several times with Jean-Luc ...

, whose character takes on a job dressing up as Santa Claus in order to save money for a stylish duffel coat. It was the second commercial film made by French director

Jean Eustache Jean Eustache (; 30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous short films, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, ''The Mother and the Whore'', is c ...

, who would go on to make several other featurettes. The title translates as ''Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes''.

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* French black-and-white films 1966 films Films directed by Jean Eustache 1960s French films Santa Claus in film {{1960s-France-film-stub