Benny's Bathtub is a 1971 Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

 animated film directed by Jannik Hastrup

Jannik Hastrup

Jannik Hastrup is a Danish writer, director, producer, illustrator and animator. He is considered "Denmark's grand master of animation", as he is particularly well-known for directing, animating and writing several animated films, occasionally with Flemming Quist Møller, including Benny's Bathtub,...

 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

Otto Brandenburg

Otto Herman Max Brandenburg was a Danish musician, singer and actor and film score composer.-Filmography:*Styrmand Karlsen *Sømand i knibe *Mine tossede drenge *Prinsesse for en dag...

 and Poul Dissing as well as the jazz music of Kenny Drew

Kenny Drew

Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew was an American jazz pianist.-Biography:Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington...

 and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

- Discography :* My Name Is Albert Ayler 1963 * Kirk in Copenhagen 1963 * Ben Webster in Denmark 1965-1971 Live at Danish Radio studios, Jazzhus Montmartre and Odd Fellow Palæet - Universal Music Denmark*One Flight Up 1964 *Sunday Walk 1969 - Discography :* My Name Is Albert Ayler 1963 (with...

. 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.

Synopsis

It is the story of a boy named Benny who is bored in the apartment house where his parents don't have time to talk or play with him. Outdoors, Benny catches a tadpole which he takes home into 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

Actor	Role
Bo Jakobsen	Benny
Jesper Klein	Haletudsen
Peter Belli	Blæksprutten
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Otto Brandenburg Otto Brandenburg Otto Herman Max Brandenburg was a Danish musician, singer and actor and film score composer.-Filmography:*Styrmand Karlsen *Sømand i knibe *Mine tossede drenge *Prinsesse for en dag...	Hummerdrengen
Jytte Hauch-Fausbøll	Bennys mor
Rolf Krogh	Ornitologen
Poul Dissing	Sørøver
Per Bentzon Goldschmidt	Sørøver
Per Tønnes Nielsen	Cowboy
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Maia Årskov	Havfrue
Trille (Bodil Trille Nielsen)	Havfrue
Christian Sievert	Krabbe
Allan Botschinsky Allan Botschinsky Allan Botschinsky is a Danish jazz trumpeter.Botschinsky's father played bassoon professionally. He began on trumpet at age 11 and at 14 began studying at the Royal Danish Conservatorium...	Søhest

External links

• Bennys badekar at IMDb
• Bennys badekar at the Danish Film Database (in Danish)
• Bennys Uofficielle Badekar
• Bennys badekar at Det Danske Filminstitut (in Danish)