Fortunat (English: Fortunate) is a 1960 Franco-Italian co-production motion picture comedy directed and written by Alex Joffé, based on a novel by Michel Breitman.
It tells the story of a lazy man who helps a sociable lady and her children from the Nazis.
In Occupied France during the Second World War, destiny brings together the poacher Fortunat, an honest guy with a weakness for drink, and Juliette, an elegant woman with two children: Pierre and Maurice.
Juliette and her children must reach the French-controlled zone in the south, to take refuge in Toulouse.
After the Liberation of France, Juliette is reunited with her husband, and Fortunat returns to his life as a single man.