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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Why did French television wait so long to broadcast The Sorrow and the Pity?
It was refused for political reasons until 1981.
French television refused to broadcast the film for what a 1981 report called primarily political reasons, and it was shown nationwide only on October 29, 1981. The report said the country's third channel agreed to put it on only after Socialist President Francois Mitterrand came to power that year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Created By: Marcel Ophuls, Infobox: director
Marcel Ophuls
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