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The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)

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Reviews Counted:24

Fresh:24

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Average Rating:8.6/10

Runtime: 4 hrs 20 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Synopsis: THE SORROW AND THE PITY is one of the greatest documentaries ever made, delving into the Nazi occupation of France. Director Marcel Ophuls interviewed dozens of French, British, and German... THE SORROW AND THE PITY is one of the greatest documentaries ever made, delving into the Nazi occupation of France. Director Marcel Ophuls interviewed dozens of French, British, and German citizens, including soldiers, former Nazis, members of the resistance and collaborators. The result is an amazing portrait of ordinary people in extraordinary, and terrible, conditions. [More]

Director: Marcel Ophuls

Director: Marcel Ophuls

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  • A chronicle of a French city under the occupation. Director Marcel Ophuls combined interviews and archival film footage to explore the reality of the French occupation in one small industrial city, Clermont-Ferrand. He spoke with resistance fighters, collaborators, spies, farmers, government officials, writers, artists and veterans. The result is a shattering portrait of how ordinary people actually conducted themselves under extraordinary circumstances. By turns gripping, horrifying, and inspiring, Academy Award nominee "The Sorrow and the Pity" is a triumph of humanist filmmaking and a testament to the power of cinema. Before "Shoah," "Schindler's List," "The Long Way Home" and "The Last Days," there was "The Sorrow and the Pity."
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    For any history buff, this film is a must-see. (Try breaking it up into chunks.)

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    12/18/01
    Christopher Null
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    Ophüls is more relentless than Mike Wallace in getting beneath the cover stories and revealing the truth.

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    06/19/01
    John A. Nesbit
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    ...exposes the political and moral shortsightedness that led to one of the sorriest chapters in an infinitely sorrowful war.

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    05/18/01
    Tom Block
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    The postwar, Gaullist myth of massive French resistance to fascism has long since been destroyed, yet The Sorrow and the Pity retains its shattering power as an interrogation of memory.

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