The Sorrow and the Pity

Chronicle of a French city under the Occupation

Apr 14, 1971 4h 11m

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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.

Title	The Sorrow and the Pity
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Keywords	vichy regime, world war ii, german occupation of france, nazi collaborationism, nazi occupation, occupied france (1940-44), vichy