Mon oncle Benjamin (1969)

Directed by

Édouard Molinaro

Genre

comedy film, romantic comedy film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 18th century France, a free-spirited country doctor named Benjamin banters and carouses through his village while dodging marriage-minded women and local nobles. The film follows his comic attempts to stay cheerful and unburdened.

lightheartedwhimsicalold-fashionedplayfulbriskcomicpastoralwry

What happens

My Uncle Benjamin (French: Mon oncle Benjamin) is a 1969 French-Italian historical comedy film directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Jacques Brel, Claude Jade and Bernard Alane. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around Yonne. The film's sets were designed by the art director François de Lamothe. The film is based on a once-popular French comic novel My Uncle Benjamin by Claude Tillier (1843). The 1969 film Don't Grieve, directed by the Georgian Georgi Daneliya, is also based on Tillier's novel as was Francis Bousquet's 1942 comic opera Mon oncle Benjamin. The film was released on 28 November 1969. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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