The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Le chagrin et la pitié (original title)
Rated: PG
Runtime: 251 min
Sound Mix: Mono
Color: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Cast: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave
Director: Marcel Ophüls
Writers: André Harris, Marcel Ophüls
Producers: André Harris, Alain de Sedouy
Cinematographer: André Gazut, Jürgen Thieme
Editors: Claude Vajda
Production Company: Télévision Rencontre, Société Suisse de Radiodiffusion et Télévision (SSR), Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
Country: Switzerland | West Germany

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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