Monsier Batignole is a French boxoffice 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 showed how a French grocer Gérard Jugnot helped a young Jewish boy reach Switzerland safely.