Themes French war films,
Films about racism,
Films about religion,
Documentary films about racism,
Documentary films about law,
Documentary films about war,
Documentary films about historical events,
Documentary films about religion,
Political films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Documentary films about World War II,
Histoire de France,
L'Occupation allemande en France
The Sorrow and the Pity (French: Le Chagrin et la pitié) is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophüls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II. The film uses interviews with a German officer, collaborators, and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature of and reasons for collaboration. The reasons include antisemitism, anglophobia, fear of Bolsheviks and Soviet invasion, the desire for power, and simple caution.Synopsis
Part One of the film, The Collapse, has an extended interview with Pierre Mendès France. He was jailed by the Vichy government on charges of desertion, but escaped from jail to join Charles de Gaulle's forces operating out of England, and later served as Prime Minister of liberated France.
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