班吉
director:
Fred Zinnemann
playwright:
Stewart Stern
actor:
Lee Aaker
/
Neville Brand
/
Helen Brown
/
Henry Fonda
/
Louis Lettieri
…
genre:
Documentary
region:
United States
language:
English
length: 10m
release date: 1951-01-01
IMDb: tt0043334
overview
Benjy is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It won an Oscar in 1952 for Documentary Short Subject. Henry Fonda narrates this short film about a boy who was handicapped from birth. An orthopedic pediatrician wants to provide a therapeutic regimen that could cure the child, a scoliosis patient, but first he needs to convince the boy's parents, who have rejected the child because of his disabilities.