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The Sorrow and the Pity
Marcel Ophüls

The Sorrow and the Pity

  • Documentary
  • History
  • War

Chronicle of a French city under the Occupation

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RELEASE

1971-04-14

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LENGTH

251 min

Description

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. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution.