Monsieur Batignole

October. 30,2002      
Rating:
7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Gérard Jugnot as  Edmond Batignole
Jules Sitruk as  Simon Bernstein
Michèle Garcia as  Marguerite Batignole
Jean-Paul Rouve as  Pierre-Jean Lamour
Alexia Portal as  Micheline Batignole
Violette Blanckaert as  Sarah Cohen
Daphné Baiwir as  Guila Cohen
Götz Burger as  SS Col. Spreich
Élisabeth Commelin as  Irène
Hubert Saint-Macary as  Gendarmerie lieutenant

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