Benny's Bathtub

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

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]

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