Mon oncle Benjamin
1969 French film
- 28 November 1969 (1969-11-28) (France)
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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
- 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
- ^ "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.
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External links
- My Uncle Benjamin at IMDb
- Mon oncle Benjamin at AllMovie
- Picture Jacques Brel and Claude Jade
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Films directed by Édouard Molinaro
- Back to the Wall (1958)
- The Road to Shame (1959)
- Witness in the City (1959)
- A Mistress for the Summer (1960)
- The Passion of Slow Fire (1961)
- A Touch of Treason (1962)
- The Seven Deadly Sins (segment) (1962)
- Arsene Lupin vs. Arsene Lupin (1962)
- Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
- Male Hunt (1964)
- When the Peasants Pass (1965)
- To Commit a Murder (1967)
- Oscar (1967)
- Hibernatus (1969)
- My Uncle Benjamin (1969)
- La liberté en croupe (1970)
- The Most Gentle Confessions (1971)
- Sweet Deception (1972)
- The Hostage Gang (1973)
- A Pain in the Ass (1973)
- The Irony of Chance (1974)
- The Pink Telephone (1975)
- Dracula and Son (1976)
- The Hurried Man (1977)
- La Cage aux Folles (1978)
- Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses! (1979)
- Sunday Lovers (segment) (1980)
- La Cage aux Folles II (1980)
- For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now (1982)
- Just the Way You Are (1984)
- Palace (1985)
- Love on the Quiet (1985)
- Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator (1988)
- The Supper (1992)
- Beaumarchais (1996)
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