Benny's Bathtub
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	6 March 1971 (1971-03-06)
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]

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

References

External links

• 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