The Sorrow and the Pity

Name: The Sorrow and the Pity
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Released: 14 Apr 1971
Rating: 10
Cast: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave, Louis Grave, Pierre Mendès France

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.

Genre: Documentary, History, War

Cast: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave, Louis Grave, Pierre Mendès France

Crew: Marcel Ophüls (Director), Alain Demartines (Assistant Camera), André Harris (Writer), Marcel Ophüls (Writer), André Gazut (Director of Photography)

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Runtime: 251 minutes

Quality: HD

Release: Apr 14, 1971

IMDb: 10

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Language: English, Français, Deutsch

Keyword : vichy regime, world war ii, german occupation of france, nazi collaborationism, nazi occupation, occupied france (1940-44), ww2, philippe pétain, wwii, vichy

The Sorrow and the Pity

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