Mon oncle Benjamin
Mon oncle Benjamin (English: My Uncle Benjamin) is a 1969 French film directed by Édouard Molinaro. 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[1] The film was released 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, but she refuses his advances until he is 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.[2][3]
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- Le tombeur (1958) (with René Delacroix and Paul Vandenberghe)
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