71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Le chagrin et la pitié / THE SORROW AND THE PITY

Marcel Ophüls
     256 m.
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From 1940 to 1944, the part of France administrated by the Vichy Government collaborated with Nazi Germany, thus leaving a controversial blotch on French history. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews with collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand in the centre of France, and with the odd German officer. Also featured is Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for his anti-Vichy action and later France's Prime Minister, and Christian de la Mazière, one of the 7,000 French youths to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms.
Director
Marcel Ophüls
Screenplay
André Harris, Marcel Ophüls
Photography
André Gazut, Jürgen Thieme
Edition
Claude Vajda
Running Time
256 m.
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