Benny's Bathtub (Original title: Bennys badekar) is a 1971 Danish animated film directed by Jannik Hastrup and Flemming Quist Møller. The film relates the story of a boy who flees the boring world of adults into a magical land in the bottom of his bathtub. The film featured the voices and songs of Peter Belli, Otto Brandenburg and Povl Dissing as well as the jazz music of Kenny Drew and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Benny's Bathtub received a special Bodil Award for animated film in 1971 and is one of the ten films chosen for Denmark's cultural canon by the Danish Ministry of Culture.[1]
| Benny's Bathtub | |
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 Front cover of the Danish DVD for Benny's Bathtub | |
| Directed by | Jannik Hastrup Flemming Quist Møller |
| Written by | Flemming Quist Møller |
| Produced by | Anni Holst Per Holst |
| Starring | Peter Belli Jesper Klein Trille Jytte Abildstrøm |
| Cinematography | Poul Dupont |
| Edited by | Henrik Carlsen |
| Music by | Hans-Henrik Ley |
| Distributed by | Fiasco Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 41 minutes |
| Country | Denmark |
| Language | Danish |
Synopsis edit
The protagonist is a young child named Benny who is bored in his flat building because his parents are too busy to play or chat to him. Benny captures a tadpole outside and brings it inside to put it in the bathtub. Benny discovers the tadpole is an enchanted prince, who dives with Benny to the bottom of the bathtub and into a magical ocean world. In this fantastic world Benny meets pirates, mermaids and an octopus and experiences the things he misses in his daily life.
Cast edit
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Bo Jakobsen | Benny |
| Jesper Klein | Haletudsen |
| Peter Belli | Blæksprutten |
| Jytte Abildstrøm | Dagny |
| Otto Brandenburg | Hummerdrengen |
| Jytte Hauch-Fausbøll | Bennys mor |
| Rolf Krogh | Ornitologen |
| Povl Dissing | Sørøver |
| Per Bentzon Goldschmidt | Sørøver |
| Per Tønnes Nielsen | Cowboy |
| Aya | Havfrue |
| Maia Årskov | Havfrue |
| Trille (Bodil Trille Nielsen) | Havfrue |
| Christian Sievert | Krabbe |
| Allan Botschinsky | Søhest |
References edit
- ^ "Bennys Badekar". Kanon for Film. Archived from the original on 16 November 2008.Danish Ministry for Culture, 2006
External links edit
- Benny's Bathtub at IMDb
- Benny's Bathtub in the Danish Film Database
- Bennys badekar at the Danish Film Database (in Danish)
- Bennys Uofficielle Badekar Archived 2 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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