The Sorrow and the Pity
1969 documentary film about life in Nazi-occupied France / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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French | Le Chagrin et la Pitié |
Directed by | Marcel Ophuls |
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Edited by | Claude Vajda |
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Running time | 251 minutes |
Countries | France West Germany Switzerland |
Languages | French German English[1][2] |
Box office | $13,082[3][4] |
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".