The Sorrow and the Pity
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.
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Production and distribution (3)
- Foreign production companies : Nord 3 - NDR - Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : NEF - Nouvelles Éditions de Films
Full credits (6)
- Executive Producers : André Harris, Alain de Sedouy
- Screenwriter : Marcel Ophüls
- Directors of Photography : André Gazut, Jürgen Thieme
- Assistant Director : Claude Vajda
- Editor : Claude Vajda
- Sound Recordist : Bernard Migy
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : War
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Switzerland, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
