The Sorrow and the Pity

Chronicle of a French city under the Occupation

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Release Date

9/18/1969

Runtime

2 eps, 250 mins

Genres

Documentary War & Politics

Overview

An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II, between the Vichy regime, established in the south of France and headed by Marshal Pétain, and Nazi Germany.

Status

Ended

Original Language

French

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A rigorous, unsettling excavation of how an entire society normalized collaboration with fascism through interviews, archival footage, and historical testimony. Watching it demands patience and moral reckoning: Ophuls refuses easy answers or comfortable distance.