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What “The Sorrow and the Pity” does more brilliantly than anything else is to avoid abstractions and give its human portraits of people who tried to land on their feet during chaotic times. There are unforgettable scenes. Pierre Mendes-France recalls his prison break during the war.
The Sorrow and the Pity narrates a painful chapter in France's history through an impressively rich mosaic of testimonies and historical archives, giving a complex texture to the struggles...
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Jun 1, 2023 · June 1, 2023. Photo: Kino Lorber. Marcel Ophüls’s The Sorrow and the Pity is a veritable chorus of disparate voices and striking faces, exquisitely juxtaposed in a way that challenges the once widely accepted notion of a strong, resistant France in the face of evil.
Jul 11, 2022 · By Richard Brody. July 11, 2022. Marcel Ophuls’s documentary spotlighted Nazi collaborators in addition to French Resistance fighters, challenging the country’s self-exonerating postwar mythology....
Feb 27, 2023 · February 27, 2023. “The Sorrow and the Pity,” a landmark documentary from 1969, is now in theaters with a breathtaking 4K restoration after years of being banned. The film immerses viewers in the treason, pain and deception that occurred in Vichy France: the four years when the Nazis’ totalitarian regime controlled a puppet French government.
May 14, 2004 · A British agent who parachuted into Vichy France tells of falling in love with a German soldier. Pro-Nazi Frenchmen talk in disturbingly unrepentant tones about their hatred of Communism and the...
In the United States, Time magazine gave a positive review of the film, and wrote that Marcel Ophuls "tries to puncture the bourgeois myth—or protectively askew memory—that allows France generally to act as if hardly any Frenchmen collaborated with the Germans."
