1969 documentary film about life in Nazi-occupied France
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The Sorrow and the Pity
Movie poster
French
Le Chagrin et la Pitié
Directed by
Marcel Ophuls
Written by
Marcel Ophuls
André Harris
Produced by
Alain de Sedouy
André Harris
Cinematography
André Gazut
Jürgen Thieme
Edited by
Claude Vajda
Production companies
Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Société suisse de radiodiffusion
Release date
18 September 1969 (1969-September-18)
Running time
251 minutes
Countries
France West Germany Switzerland
Languages
French German English[1][2]
Box office
$13,082[3][4]
The Sorrow and the Pity (French: Le Chagrin et la Pitié) is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophuls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II. The film uses interviews with a German officer, collaborators, and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature of and reasons for collaboration, including antisemitism, Anglophobia, fear of Bolsheviks and Soviet invasion, and the desire for power.
The title comes from a comment by interviewee Marcel Verdier, a pharmacist in Montferrat, Isère, who says "the two emotions I experienced the most [during the Nazi occupation] were sorrow and pity".
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