Benny's Bathtub | |
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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 |
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Running time | 41 minutes |
Country | Denmark |
Language | Danish |
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]