Directed by Marcel Ophüls. With Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun, Maurice Buckmaster. An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of Nazi invasion.
The Sorrow and the Pity (French: Le Chagrin et la Pitié) is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophüls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II.
“The Sorrow and the Pity” leaves you with the peculiar feeling of having spent a good deal of time, over the years, in the small French city of Clermont-Ferrand.
Made for French television, Marcel Ophüls' four-hour-plus documentary explores the average French citizen's memories of the Nazi occupation. Just how large and effective was the fabled resistance movement? Is cooperation the same thing as collaboration? And how did one's up-close-and-personal experiences with the occupation troops impact one's postwar life? These questions are probingly posed (but not all are answered) by Ophüls, who also acts as offscreen interviewer.
★★★★★In 1969 the German-born director Marcel Ophüls went to the French city of Clermont-Ferrand and interviewed residents about precisely what they did.
Documentary (interviews and newsreels) retracing the historical events of World War II during the German occupation of France. The film particularly centres round the town of Clermont-Ferrand where the Vichy regime was located.
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand.
Directed by Marcel Ophüls. With Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun, Maurice Buckmaster. An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of Nazi invasion.
The Sorrow and the Pity (French: Le Chagrin et la Pitié) is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophüls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II.
“The Sorrow and the Pity” leaves you with the peculiar feeling of having spent a good deal of time, over the years, in the small French city of Clermont-Ferrand.
Made for French television, Marcel Ophüls' four-hour-plus documentary explores the average French citizen's memories of the Nazi occupation. Just how large and effective was the fabled resistance movement? Is cooperation the same thing as collaboration? And how did one's up-close-and-personal experiences with the occupation troops impact one's postwar life? These questions are probingly posed (but not all are answered) by Ophüls, who also acts as offscreen interviewer.
★★★★★In 1969 the German-born director Marcel Ophüls went to the French city of Clermont-Ferrand and interviewed residents about precisely what they did.
Documentary (interviews and newsreels) retracing the historical events of World War II during the German occupation of France. The film particularly centres round the town of Clermont-Ferrand where the Vichy regime was located.
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand.
