Mon oncle Benjamin | |
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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] |
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.
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]
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Mon oncle Benjamin | |
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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] |
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.
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]
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