Monsiuer Batignole DVD 2002 Edmond Batignole / Directed by Gérard Jugnot / Starring: Gérard Jugnot, Jules Sitruk, Alexia Portal

UPC 5999882843643

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: French 5.1, Hungarian 5.1

Subtitles: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 99 minutes

English Summary:

Monsieur Batignole is a French 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 lead roles. The film depicts the story of an ordinary grocer, Edmond Batignole, who helps the young son of his Jewish neighbour, and the boy's two cousins, to reach Switzerland safely.

In 1942, in Paris, which was under German occupation during World War II, a grocer Edmond Batignole (Gérard Jugnot) is living with his family on the ground floor of an apartment building. He has a daughter who is soon to be married. His future son-in-law, an aspiring writer Pierre-Jean (Jean-Paul Rouve) wants the penthouse apartment occupied by a Jewish family, the Bernsteins, and alerts the Gestapo who capture the family early one morning. When the Bernsteins' property is confiscated, the Batignoles apply for and are awarded the apartment. The Batignoles cater a party for SS officials in the confiscated apartment. During the party, young Simon Bernstein (Jules Sitruk) returns to his family home. Batignole hides Simon in a servant's apartment on the top floor of the building but soon moves him to the cellar to avoid discovery. Simon is later joined in the cellar by his two cousins who were themselves being hidden by the concierge of another Parisian apartment building. Edmond tries to find someone to smuggle the children over the border to Switzerland but eventually determines to take them himself. Edmond and the children undertake the dangerous trip to the Swiss border, where they 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.

Hungarian Summary:

1942, Párizs. Edmond Batignole visszahúzódó, konfliktus kerülő ember. Hentesüzletének egyedüli fizetőképes ügyfelei már csak a náci tisztek maradtak. Amikor két sonka ellopásáért megvádol egy zsidó kisgyereket, akaratlanul is felhívja rájuk a megszállók figyelmét. A családot deportálják, Batignolék a a céltudatos feleség nyomására beköltöznek az üresen maradt nagyobb házba. Egy napon az elhurcolt család gyermeke, Simon kopog ajtajukon. A hentes kelletlenül elszállásolja, de napokon belül egyre többen lesznek. Batignole kétségbeesetten próbál megszabadulni tőlük. Azonban minél több emberrel beszél kimenekítésükről, annál inkább rájön, hogy neki magának kell megtennie a veszélyes mentőakciót...

French Summary:

En 1942, dans le Paris occupé, Edmond Batignole (Gérard Jugnot) est un boucher-charcutier sans histoire dont la fille a été promise en mariage à Pierre-Jean Lamour (Jean-Paul Rouve), un auteur de pièces de théâtre sans talent et collaborateur notoire. Un soir, Simon Bernstein (Jules Sitruk), un enfant juif, se présente à Edmond et lui demande l'asile à la suite de l'arrestation quelques jours plus tôt de sa famille par la police française, dénoncée par Pierre-Jean. Cet enfant va obliger Edmond à s'engager pour le sauver et à faire de lui, malgré lui, un héros fort ordinaire...

Cast / Distribution / Szereplők:

• Jules Sitruk - Simon Bernstein
• Michèle Garcia - Marguerite Batignole
• Gérard Jugnot - Edmond Batignole
• Jean-Paul Rouve - Pierre-Jean Lamour
• Alexia Portal - Micheline Batignole
• Arthur Jugnot - Arthur
• Jean-Marie Winling - Sacha Guitry
• Marie-Hélène Lentini - Madame Taillepied
• Violette Blanckaert - Sarah Cohen
• Daphné Baiwir - Guila Cohen
• Götz Burger - SS Col. Spreich