The Sorrow and the Pity
Chronicle of a French City under the OccupationApr. 14, 1971259 Min.
Synopsis
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. Part one, „The Collapse,“ includes an extended interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy action and later France’s Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, „The Choice,“ is an interview with Christian de la Mazière, one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms.
Original title Das Haus nebenan − Chronik einer französischen Stadt im Kriege
IMDb Rating 8.2
TMDb Rating 7.586 58 votes
Director
Director
Cast
Himself
Himself
Himself
(also archive footage) (as Lord Avon)
Himself - Former Prime Minister of France
Himself - Founder of the Liberation Movement
Himself
Himself - Interviewer
Himself - Interviewer
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