My Uncle Benjamin (1969 film)
| My Uncle Benjamin | |
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| Directed by | Edouard Molinaro |
| Written by | André Couteaux Edouard Molinaro Jean-François Hauduroy |
| Based on | My Uncle Benjamin by Claude Tillier |
| Produced by | Alain Poiré |
| Starring | Jacques Brel Claude Jade Bernard Alane |
| Cinematography | Alain Levent |
| Edited by | Monique Isnardon Robert Isnardon |
| Music by | Jacques Brel |
Production companies | Euro International Films Gaumont International |
| Distributed by | Gaumont Distribution |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Countries | France Italy |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $20.4 million |
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.