The Sorrow and the Pity
Chronicle of a French city under the Occupation
1971 fr 251 minutes
Rating: 0
Plot
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.
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Cast
Helmut Tausend
Self, former Wehrmacht Captain
Marcel Verdier
Self, pharmacist
Alexis Grave
Self, farmer
Louis Grave
Self, farmer, Resistance fighter
Pierre Mendès France
Self, former Prime Minister of France
