Released
Monsieur Batignole
March 6 2002 (almost 23 years ago)Rating
70
Based on
220 reviews
- Director: Gérard Jugnot
- Writers: Gérard Jugnot, Philippe Lopes-Curval
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 40 m
- Country: France
- Companies: TF1 Films Production, Novo Arturo Films, RF2K Productions, Turkhoise
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.
