The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France (2024)
The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it shattered the myth, cultivated by the followers of President Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), of a united France that had supposedly stood firm in the face of the ruthless invaders.
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Anne Sinclair
as Self - Journalist
Anne Sinclair (born Anne-Élise Schwartz; 15 July 1948) is a French-American television and radio interviewer. She hosted one of the most popular political shows for more than thirteen years on TF1, th...
Samuel Blumenfeld
as Self - Historian
Sylvie Lindeperg
as Self - Historian
Sylvie Lindeperg is a historian, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the connections between cinem...
Marcel Ophüls
as Self (archive footage) - Director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
Marcel Ophuls (German: [ˈɔfʏls]; born 1 November 1927) was a German-French documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films The Sorrow and the Pity and Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Ti...
André Gazut
as Self - Director of Photography
André Gazut, born November 25, 1938 in Firminy (Loire) in France, is a French documentary filmmaker.
A trainee reporter-photographer at the monthly Réalités in Paris, he saw, in December 1956, in the...
Pascal Ory
as Self - Historian
Pascal Ory (born 31 July 1948) is a French historian. A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the...
Director
Joseph Beauregard
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