The Sorrow and the Pity
Chronicle of a French city under the Occupation
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.
- Year: 1971
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- Genre: Documentary, History, War
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- Keyword: vichy regime, world war ii, german occupation of france, nazi collaborationism, nazi occupation, occupied france (1940-44), ww2, philippe pétain, wwii, vichy
- Director: Marcel Ophüls
- Cast: Helmut Tausend, Marcel Verdier, Alexis Grave, Louis Grave, Pierre Mendès France