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My Uncle Benjamin is a french film of genre Comedy directed by Édouard Molinaro with Jacques Brel

My Uncle Benjamin (1969)

My Uncle Benjamin
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Length 1h30
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OriginFrance
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Historical
Rating66% 3.331013.331013.331013.331013.33101

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). The 1969 film Don't Grieve, directed by the Georgian Georgi Daneliya, is also based on Tillier's novel The film was released November 28, 1969.

Synopsis

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, 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.

Actors

Jacques Brel

(Benjamin Rathery)
Claude Jade

(Manette)
Jacques Dynam
Bernard Blier

(Marquis de Cambyse)
Rosy Varte

(Bettine, soeur de Benjamin)
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