My Uncle Benjamin

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My Uncle Benjamin (French: 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.[1]

Cast

• Jacques Brel - Benjamin Rathery
• Claude Jade - Manette
• Bernard Alane - Pont-Cassé
• Robert Dalban - Innkeeper
• Bernard Blier - Marquis

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, now free, takes to the road, taking with him Manette, who has at last given in to him, having decides that she prefers happiness to a marriage contract.

External links

• {{{2|{{{title|My Uncle Benjamin}}}}}} at The Internet Movie Database
• Picture Jacques Brel and Claude Jade
• Poster My Uncle Benjamin
• Video Cover My Uncle Benjamincs:Můj strýc Benjamin

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