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3.4/5 AlloCine Cinematography Gérard Simon Box office 22.3 million USD | 7/10 IMDb 70% Rotten Tomatoes Music by Khalil Chahine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Gérard JugnotOlivier GranierDominique Farrugia Written by Gérard JugnotPhilippe Lopes-Curval Starring Gérard JugnotMichèle GarciaJules SitrukJean-Paul RouveGötz BurgerAlexia Portal Awards César Award for Most Promising Actor Screenplay Gérard Jugnot, Philippe Lopes-Curval Cast Gérard Jugnot, Jules Sitruk, Jean‑Paul Rouve, Michèle Garcia, Alexia Portal Similar Gérard Jugnot movies, World War II movies, Comedy-dramas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Monsier Batignole is a French box office hit film released in 2002. The film was directed by Gérard Jugnot and featured Gérard Jugnot, Jules Sitruk, Jean-Paul Rouve, Götz Burger, Michèle Garcia and Alexia Portal in the lead role. The film depicts the story of French grocer Gérard Jugnot helping a young Jewish boy reach Switzerland safely. The film showed that on one side there were people who wanted to own and enjoy whatever property belonging to the Jews that had been confiscated by the German Army, and on the other were people like Edmond Batignole, who kept his sense of humanity and wanted to help the homeless Jewish boy.
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Plot
In 1942, in Paris, which was seized by Germany, a grocer Edmond Batignole (Gérard Jugnot) is living with his family in his grocery building. He has a daughter who is soon to be married. His future son-in-law, Pierre-Jean (Jean-Paul Rouve) and his wife wanted the apartment owned by a Jewish family. When the property of all the Jews was confiscated the Batignole family got the apartment. The Jewish family was sent to transportation to Germany. After the Batignoles had occupied the apartment the Batignoles organise a party for the SS officials and during that party young Simon Bernstein (Jules Sitruk) of the Jewish family who had escaped from the Germans, returns to his home. Edmond Batignole feels sorry for the boy and hides him in the apartment from his family before anyone else could see him. Soon Simon's cousins meet him in the cellar of the grocery and the grocer plans to smuggle the children over the border to Switzerland. Edmond takes the dangerous trip to the border, where he and the children are nearly caught by the police. However, with the help of a kind woman and a priest, they are able to sneak over the border to safety in Switzerland.
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Review
The film was a box office hit in France. The film also received huge critical acclaim. It was praised for the portrayal of collaboration of the French during the Second World War. Some said the film had some similarities with "Life is Beautiful". The 2002 French Academy of Cinema Best Young Actor award was won by Jean-Paul Rouve in this film. The film was shown at VCU French Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, French Film Festival, Bergen International Film Festival where it once again received huge critical acclaim. The film's director Gérard Jugnot was praised for his directing and acting.