The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)
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.
- Release Date: 1971-04-14
- Runtime: 4h 11min
- Director: Marcel Ophüls
