Movie: The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

Top 10 Billed Cast

Vincent Lowy
Vincent Lowy

Self - Historian

Anne Sinclair
Anne Sinclair

Self - Journalist

Samuel Blumenfeld
Samuel Blumenfeld

Self - Historian

Sylvie Lindeperg
Sylvie Lindeperg

Self - Historian

Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls

Self (archive footage) - Director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")

Pascal Breton
Pascal Breton

Self - Producer

André Harris
André Harris

Self - Co-Author ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")

André Gazut
André Gazut

Self - Director of Photography

Pascal Ory
Pascal Ory

Self - Historian

Henry Rousso
Henry Rousso

Self - Historian

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    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.

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    2024-03-20

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