{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = Benny's Bathtub | image = Bennys badekar.jpg | caption = DVD cover | director = Jannik Hastrup <br />Flemming Quist Møller | producer = Anni Holst <br /> Per Holst | writer = Flemming Quist Møller | narrator = | starring = Peter Belli<br/>Jesper Klein<br/>Trille<br>Jytte Abildstrøm | music = Hans-Henrik Ley | cinematography = Poul Dupont | editing = Henrik Carlsen | distributor = Fiasco Film | released = {{Film date|1971|03|06|df=y}} | runtime = 41 minutes | country = Denmark | language = Danish | budget = }}
'''''Benny's Bathtub''''' (Original title: '''''Bennys badekar''''') is a 1971 Danish animated film directed by Jannik Hastrup and Flemming Quist Møller.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://politiken.dk/kultur/musik/art7954751/Kim-Skotte-Alle-havde-glemt-alt-om-disse-optagelser-fra-Bennys-badekar.-Heldigvis-er-de-blevet-gravet-frem-og-selv-i-USA-vil-de-lytte-med | title=Alle havde glemt alt om disse optagelser fra 'Bennys badekar'. Heldigvis er de blevet gravet frem, og selv i USA vil de lytte med | first=Kim | last=Skotte | newspaper=Politiken | date=18 October 2020 | access-date=16 August 2025}}</ref> The film is 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. The film and its music became a cult hit in Denmark.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://politiken.dk/kultur/musik/roskildefestival/art5406465/Kulttegnefilm-opf%C3%B8res-live-p%C3%A5-Roskilde-Festival | title=Kulttegnefilm opføres live på Roskilde Festival | trans-title=Cult cartoon to be performed live at Roskilde Festival | newspaper=Politiken | first=Birgitte | last=Kjaer | date=24 May 2011 | access-date=16 August 2025}}</ref> It is one of the ten films chosen for Denmark's cultural canon by the Danish Ministry of Culture.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kum.dk/sw34158.asp |title=Bennys Badekar |format= |work=Kanon for Film |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081116041918/http://www.kum.dk/sw34158.asp |archive-date=16 November 2008 |url-status=dead }}Danish Ministry for Culture, 2006</ref>
==Plot== 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== * Bo Jakobsen as Benny * Jesper Klein as Haletudsen * Peter Belli as Blæksprutten * Jytte Abildstrøm as Dagny * Otto Brandenburg as Hummerdrengen * Jytte Hauch-Fausbøll as Bennys mor * Rolf Krogh as Ornitologen * Povl Dissing as Sørøver * Per Bentzon Goldschmidt as Sørøver * Per Tønnes Nielsen as Cowboy
* Aya as Havfrue
* Maia Årskov as Havfrue * Trille (Bodil Trille Nielsen) as Havfrue * Christian Sievert as Krabbe
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0066825|Benny's Bathtub}} * {{DNFt|24}} *[http://www.danskefilm.dk/film/891.html Bennys badekar] at the Danish Film Database (in Danish) *[http://www.salikon.dk/benny_indgang.html Bennys Uofficielle Badekar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102222034/http://www.salikon.dk/benny_indgang.html |date=2 January 2008 }}
Category:1971 animated films Category:1971 films Category:Danish animated films Category:Films directed by Jannik Hastrup Category:Danish Culture Canon Category:1970s Danish-language films Category:1971 Danish films {{1970s-Denmark-film-stub}}