My Uncle Benjamin

My Uncle Benjamin

Infobox Film
name = My Uncle Benjamin


caption = "My Uncle Benjamin" film poster
director = Edouard Molinaro
writer = André Couteaux
Edouard Molinaro
starring = Jacques Brel
Claude Jade
Bernard Alane
producer = Roger Debelmas
distributor =
budget =
released = 28 November 1969 (France)
runtime = 90 min.
language = French
imdb_id = 0122617

"My Uncle Benjamin" ( _fr. Mon oncle Benjamin) is a 1969 French movie directed by Édouard Molinaro. There is also another film version ("Ne Goryuy!" en: "Don't Worry!") directed by the Georgian Georgi Daneliya, with music by the famed Georgian composer Giya Kancheli (1969). Both films are based on a once-popular [French, 1842] comic novel by Claude Tillier. [http://culture.revolution.free.fr/critiques/Claude_Tillier-Mon_oncle_Benjamin.html]

Cast

*Jacques Brel - Benjamin Rathery
*Claude Jade - Manette
*Bernard Alane - Pont-Cassé
*Robert Dalban - Innkeeper
*Bernard Blier - Marquis
*Robert Dalban — Jean-Francois
*Paul Préboist — Parlenta

Plot

The date is 1750 and Louis XV is on the throne. Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract. Later Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis de Camyse to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is condemned to penal servitude. Benjamin, once free, takes to the road, taking with him Manette, who has at last given in to him, having decided that she prefers happiness to a marriage contract.

External links

*imdb title|id=0122617|title=My Uncle Benjamin
* [http://film.spettacolo.virgilio.it/imgbank/GALLERY/MI/00659907.jpgPicture Jacques Brel and Claude Jade]


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