Mon oncle Benjamin (My Uncle Benjamin) is a 1969 French film directed by Édouard Molinaro, starring Jacques Brel and Claude Jade. The film is based on a once-popular French comic novel Mon oncle Benjamin by Claude Tillier (1842).[2] The 1969 film Don't Grieve,[3] directed by the Georgian Georgi Daneliya, is also based on Tillier's novel as was Francis Bousquet's 1942 comic opera Mon oncle Benjamin.[4][5] The film was released on 28 November 1969.
| Mon oncle Benjamin | |
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 Mon oncle Benjamin film poster | |
| Directed by | Edouard Molinaro |
| Written by | André Couteaux Edouard Molinaro |
| Produced by | Alain Poiré |
| Starring | Jacques Brel Claude Jade Bernard Alane |
| Music by | Jacques Brel |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $20.4 million[1] |
Plot
editThe story is set in 1750 during the time of Louis XV. Benjamin (Jacques Brel) is a country doctor in love with the beautiful innkeeper's daughter, Manette (Claude Jade), but she refuses his advances until he produces a marriage contract. After suffering a humiliating practical joke and condemned to prison, Benjamin escapes with Manette, who realizes she prefers happiness to a marriage contract after all.[6][7]
Cast
edit- Jacques Brel – Benjamin Rathery
- Claude Jade – Manette
- Bernard Alane – Pont-Cassé
- Robert Dalban – Innkeeper
- Bernard Blier – Marquis
- Rosy Varte – Bettine
- Paul Frankeur – Minxit
- Lyne Chardonnet – Arabelle
- Armand Mestral – Machecourt
- Paul Préboist – Parlenta
- Daniela Surina – Marquise of Cambyse
References
edit- ^ "Mon Oncle Benjamin (1969) - JPBox-Office".
- ^ Tillier, Claude (1917). My Uncle Benjamin. Translated by Seltzer, Adele Szold. New York: Boni and Liveright. Retrieved 27 October 2020 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Ne goryuy! (May 8, 1970). "IMDb". IMDb.
- ^ Holder, Samuel (January 22, 2002). "Claude Tillier – Mon oncle Benjamin". Culture & Révolution. Retrieved January 19, 2009.
- ^ Yoken, Melvin B. (1978). "Claude Tillier". The Old Century and the New: Essays in Honor of Charles Angoff, pp. 228–229. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 0838619541
- ^ "Films". Archived from Editions Jacques Brel the original on March 31, 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ IMDB "Mon oncle Benjamin". Retrieved September 6, 2011.
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