The Sorrow and the Pity is a 1969 documentary directed by Marcel Ophuls, examining life in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand under Nazi occupation through interviews with former resistance fighters, collaborators, farmers and German officers. The film directly challenged the prevailing postwar French narrative of near-universal resistance to occupation, presenting a far more mixed and uncomfortable picture of collaboration, and French state television declined to broadcast it for years after its release. The Sorrow and the Pity is widely regarded as a landmark of documentary filmmaking confronting a nation's own historical memory, and it strongly influenced later documentary treatments of wartime collaboration.
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1. Wikidata: The Sorrow and the Pity
Wikidata Q638892, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 2. The Sorrow and the Pity (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLead sentence, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrow_and_the_Pity
The Sorrow and the Pity is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophuls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II.
Production section, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrow_and_the_Pity
Initially commissioned by French government-owned television to create a two part made for TV documentary, the film was banned after Ophuls submitted it to the studio that hired him.
The Sorrow and the Pity, Description, original language
The film directly challenged the prevailing postwar French narrative of near-universal resistance to occupation, presenting a far more mixed and uncomfortable picture of collaboration, and French state television declined to broadcast it for years after its release.
In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
The Sorrow and the Pity (French: Le Chagrin et la Pitié) is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophuls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II.
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