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Monsieur Batignole

  • Comedy
  • Drama

March 6, 2002 (FR)

1h 40m

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 ...

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