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Sorrow and the Pity

The Sorrow and the Pity

Le Chagrin et la pitié

Marcel Ophüls


  • Country: France/Switzerland/West Germany
  • Year: 1969
  • Language: French/German/English
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  • Runtime: 251 min.

Marcel Ophüls' (son of Max) epic investigation of French resistance and collaboration under the Nazi occupation in WWII is still one of the most important and controversial documentaries ever made, its voiceover-less, multi-faceted approach revealing the perpetual elusiveness (and deceptions) of history as we think we know it.

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screening times

    • Sunday October 24
    • 12:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox Cinema 4
    • Saturday November 13
    • 11:00:00 AM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

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Marcel Ophüls' (son of Max) epic investigation of resistance and collaboration under the Nazi occupation of France in World War II is still one of the most important and controversial documentaries ever made, its narrator-less, multi-faceted approach revealing the perpetual elusiveness (and deceptions) of history as we think we know it. Interviewing subjects from all walks of life—a former German soldier who served in the occupation force, statesmen Anthony Eden and Pierre Mendès-France, a pair of salt-of-the-earth brothers who served in the Resistance, a gay British secret agent, an aristocratic French fascist who joined the German army to "fight communism" on the Russian front and many more—Ophüls shatters the myth of a united country fiercely opposing its invader and reveals the labyrinthine moral and political complexities within a seemingly black-and-white situation.

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