Mon oncle Benjamin
Mon oncle Benjamin film poster
Directed byEdouard Molinaro
Written byAndré Couteaux
Edouard Molinaro
Produced byAlain Poiré
StarringJacques Brel
Claude Jade
Bernard Alane
Music byJacques Brel
Release date
  • 28 November 1969 (1969-11-28) (France)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$20.4 million[1]

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 [fr] 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.

Plot

The 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

References

  1. ^ "Mon Oncle Benjamin (1969) - JPBox-Office".
  2. ^ Tillier, Claude (1917). My Uncle Benjamin. Translated by Seltzer, Adele Szold. New York: Boni and Liveright. Retrieved 27 October 2020 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ Ne goryuy! (May 8, 1970). "IMDb". IMDb.
  4. ^ Holder, Samuel (January 22, 2002). "Claude Tillier – Mon oncle Benjamin". Culture & Révolution. Retrieved January 19, 2009.
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ "Films". Archived from Editions Jacques Brel the original on March 31, 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2011. ((cite web)): Check |url= value (help)
  7. ^ IMDB "Mon oncle Benjamin". Retrieved September 6, 2011. ((cite web)): Check |url= value (help)

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Films directed by Édouard Molinaro
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