Monsieur Batignole

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.