The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

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.

Top Cast

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")