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The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

MAR 20, 2024 · 62 MIN · DIR. JOSEPH BEAUREGARD

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The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it shattered the myth, cultivated by the followers of President Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), of a united France that had supposedly stood firm in the face of the ruthless invaders.

Cast

  • Vincent Lowy

    Self - Historian

  • Anne Sinclair

    Anne Sinclair

    Self - Journalist

  • Samuel Blumenfeld

    Samuel Blumenfeld

    Self - Historian

  • Sylvie Lindeperg

    Sylvie Lindeperg

    Self - Historian

  • Marcel Ophüls

    Self (archive footage) - Director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")

  • Pascal Breton

    Self - Producer

  • André Harris

    Self - Co-Author ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")

  • André Gazut

    André Gazut

    Self - Director of Photography

  • Pascal Ory

    Pascal Ory

    Self - Historian

  • Henry Rousso

    Self - Historian

  • Laurent Joly

    Laurent Joly

    Self - Historian

  • Claude Vajda

    Self (voice) (archive sound) - Assistant and Editor ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")