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The Sorrow and the Pity 1969

Sensity:	No
Imdb rate:	8.2
Imdb Votes:	4,028
Duration:	251 mins
Year:	1969
Language:	French
Genre:	Documentary, History, War
Country:	Switzerland, West Germany
Director:	Marcel Ophüls
Writers:	André Harris, Marcel Ophüls
Actors:	Helmut Tausend , Marcel Verdier , Alexis Grave ,
Awards:	Nominated for 1 Oscar. 6 wins & 2 nominations total

Description:

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.

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