After the armistice of 1940 France remains divided into two zones: the occupied zone directly ruled by the German army and the free zone ruled by the government of Vichy.Some words now about the story.In a little town of the occupied zone, a middle class lady and her two children are in danger,because the husband who is been involved in the French Reistance, has been arrested.So the local members of the resistance are looking for a person who could help the woman and her children to cross the demarcation line and go to a sure place in Toulouse.So the schoolteacher recomends Noël Fortunat, a poacher ,but an honest and reliable man for this operation.Then the film tells this travel through France till Toulouse where Noël and Juliette and the children Pierre and Maurice will stay waiting notices of the resistance.
Fortunat is a film of Alex Joffé with Bourvil and Michèle Morgan: Bourvil begins his career in the cinema after the second world war . Michèle Morgan began her carer in 1937 in Gribouille (Heart of Paris) and is then famous.
I enjoyed very much this film based a novel : because the film has good moments of suspense and because it shows the friendship and the solidarity between the poacher (with his big heart), the elegant and clever middle class lady and the two children.
Review of Fortunat
