The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

19691h 31mdir. Marcel OphulsEnglish subtitlesFrance, Germanydocumentary film

Note: this print runs 91 minutes against a recorded 251 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Anthony Eden, Christian de La Mazière, Denis Rake, Edward Spears, Émile Coulaudon, Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, Georges Bidault, Georges Lamirand

Directed by Marcel Ophuls

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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.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.

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