THE SORROW AND THE PITY: THE FILM THAT SHOCKED FRANCE (2024)
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The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
Documentary, History, TV Movie
March 20, 2024
French
1h 2m
France
Les Films du Tambour de soie
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.
Cast & Characters
Vincent Lowy
Self - historian
Anne Sinclair
Self - journalist
Samuel Blumenfeld
Self - historian
Sylvie Lindeperg
Self - historian
Marcel Ophüls
Self (archive) - director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
Pascal Breton
Self - producer
André Harris
Self - co-author ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
André Gazut
Self - director of photography
Pascal Ory
Self - historian
Henry Rousso
Self - historian
Laurent Joly
Self - historian
Claude Vajda
Self (voice) (archive) - assistant and editor ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
Claus Leggewie
Self - political scientist
Simone Veil
Self (voice) (archive) - magistrate
Antoine Spire
Self - journalist
Vincent Malle
Self - distributor
Hélène Mouchard-Zay
Self - Jean Zay's daughter
Henri Leclerc
Self - lawyer
Annette Lévy-Willard
Self - journalist
Antoine Silber
Self - journalist
François Heilbronn
Self - professor
Charles-Henri Favrod
Self (voice) (archive) - producer ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
Denis Rake
Self (archive) - secret agent, interviewee ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
Georges Pompidou
Self (archive) - President of the French Republic
Michel Ciment
Self (voice) (archive) - film critic
Crew
Joseph Beauregard
Director