Mon oncle Benjamin

{{For|the silent film|My Uncle Benjamin (1924 film)}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Mon oncle Benjamin

| image = Mon_Oncle_Benjamin.jpg

| caption = Mon oncle Benjamin film poster

| director = Edouard Molinaro

| writer = André Couteaux
Edouard Molinaro

| starring = Jacques Brel
Claude Jade
Bernard Alane

| producer = Alain Poiré

| music = Jacques Brel

| distributor = Gaumont Distribution

| budget =

| released = {{Film date|1969|11|28|France|df=y}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

| gross = $20.4 million{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=13897|title = Mon Oncle Benjamin (1969) - JPBox-Office}}

}}

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 {{Ill|Mon oncle Benjamin (novel)|fr|3=Mon oncle Benjamin|lt=Mon oncle Benjamin}} by Claude Tillier (1842).{{cite book |last=Tillier |first= Claude |translator= Seltzer, Adele Szold |translator-link=Adele Szold Seltzer |url= https://archive.org/details/myunclebenjamin00tilliala/page/n7/mode/2up |title=My Uncle Benjamin |place= New York |publisher=Boni and Liveright |year=1917 |via=Internet Archive |access-date= 27 October 2020}} The 1969 film Don't Grieve,{{Cite web|url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123186|title = IMDb|date = May 8, 1970|website = IMDb|publisher = |last = Ne goryuy!}} directed by the Georgian Georgi Daneliya, is also based on Tillier's novel as was Francis Bousquet's 1942 comic opera Mon oncle Benjamin.{{cite web |url=http://culture.revolution.free.fr/critiques/Claude_Tillier-Mon_oncle_Benjamin.html |title=Claude Tillier – Mon oncle Benjamin |work=Culture & Révolution |date=January 22, 2002 |first=Samuel |last=Holder |access-date=January 19, 2009}}Yoken, Melvin B. (1978). [https://books.google.com/books?id=BXA74sJwougC&pg=PA228 "Claude Tillier"]. The Old Century and the New: Essays in Honor of Charles Angoff, pp. 228–229. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. {{ISBN|0838619541}} 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.{{cite web|title=Films|url=http://www.jacquesbrel.be/index2.cfm?lg=EN&pg=filmo&part=acteur Editions Jacques Brel|access-date=September 6, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331124825/http://www.jacquesbrel.be/index2.cfm?lg=EN&pg=filmo&part=acteur|archive-date=March 31, 2012|df=mdy-all}}{{cite web|title=Mon oncle Benjamin|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122617/ IMDB|access-date=September 6, 2011}}

Cast

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