Le chagrin et la pitié 1969
a.k.a The Sorrow and the PityLe chagrin et la pitié Director : Marcel Ophüls
Le chagrin et la pitié Plot
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse," includes an extended interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy action and later France's Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, "The Choice," is an interview with Christian de la Mazière, one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms.
Le chagrin et la pitié Cast
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as Himself - Former Prime Minister of France -
as Himself - Founder of the Liberation Movement -
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