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The Sorrow and the Pity

The Sorrow and the Pity

1969

documentary film

Director
Marcel Ophuls
Runtime
251 min

The Sorrow and the Pity is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophuls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II. The film uses interviews with a German officer, collaborators, and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature of and reasons for collaboration, including antisemitism, Anglophobia, fear of Bolsheviks and Soviet invasion, and the desire for power.

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