Benny's Bathtub

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
Front cover of the Danish DVD for
Benny's Bathtub
Directed byJannik Hastrup
Flemming Quist Møller
Written byFlemming Quist Møller
Produced byAnni Holst
Per Holst
StarringPeter Belli
Jesper Klein
Trille
Jytte Abildstrøm
CinematographyPoul Dupont
Edited byHenrik Carlsen
Music byHans-Henrik Ley
Distributed byFiasco Film
Release date
  • 6 March 1971 (1971-03-06)
Running time
41 minutes
CountryDenmark
LanguageDanish

Synopsis

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
ActorRole
Bo JakobsenBenny
Jesper KleinHaletudsen
Peter BelliBlæksprutten
Jytte AbildstrømDagny
Otto BrandenburgHummerdrengen
Jytte Hauch-FausbøllBennys mor
Rolf KroghOrnitologen
Povl DissingSørøver
Per Bentzon GoldschmidtSørøver
Per Tønnes NielsenCowboy
AyaHavfrue
Maia ÅrskovHavfrue
Trille (Bodil Trille Nielsen)Havfrue
Christian SievertKrabbe
Allan BotschinskySøhest

References
  1. "Bennys Badekar". Kanon for Film. Archived from the original on 16 November 2008.Danish Ministry for Culture, 2006


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