The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France (2024)
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.
- Released
- 2024-03-20
- Genres
- Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 62 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Joseph Beauregard
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Vincent Lowy as Self - Historian
- Anne Sinclair as Self - Journalist
- Samuel Blumenfeld as Self - Historian
- Sylvie Lindeperg as Self - Historian
- Marcel Ophüls as Self (archive footage) - Director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
- Pascal Breton as Self - Producer
- André Harris as Self - Co-Author ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
- André Gazut as Self - Director of Photography
- Pascal Ory as Self - Historian
- Henry Rousso as Self - Historian
- Laurent Joly as Self - Historian
- Claude Vajda as Self (voice) (archive sound) - Assistant and Editor ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
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