The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

2024 8.5 (4 votes) 1h 2m

Genres

Documentary History TV Movie

Production Companies

Les Films du Tambour de soie
ARTE

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France (« Le Chagrin et la Pitié » : La France de Vichy dynamitée)

Overview

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.