The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
Joseph Beauregard2024-03-20
8.5
62 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Vincent Lowy | Self - Historian | Unowned |
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Anne Sinclair | Self - Journalist | Unowned |
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Samuel Blumenfeld | Self - Historian | Unowned |
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Sylvie Lindeperg | Self - Historian | Unowned |
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Marcel Ophüls | Self (archive footage) - Director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") | Unowned |
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Pascal Breton | Self - Producer | Unowned |
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André Harris | Self - Co-Author ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") | Unowned |
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André Gazut | Self - Director of Photography | Unowned |
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Pascal Ory | Self - Historian | Unowned |
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Henry Rousso | Self - Historian | Unowned |
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Laurent Joly | Self - Historian | Unowned |
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Claude Vajda | Self (voice) (archive sound) - Assistant and Editor ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") | Unowned |
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Claus Leggewie | Self - Political Scientist | Unowned |
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Simone Veil | Self (voice) (archive sound) - Magistrate | Unowned |
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Antoine Spire | Self - Journalist | Unowned |
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Vincent Malle | Self - Distributor | Unowned |
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Hélène Mouchard-Zay | Self - Jean Zay's Daughter | Unowned |
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Henri Leclerc | Self - Lawyer | Unowned |
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Annette Lévy-Willard | Self - Journalist | Unowned |
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Antoine Silber | Self - Journalist | Unowned |
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François Heilbronn | Self - Professor | Unowned |
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Charles-Henri Favrod | Self (voice) (archive sound) - Producer ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") | Unowned |
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Denis Rake | Self (archive footage) - Secret Agent, Interviewee ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié") | Unowned |
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Georges Pompidou | Self (archive footage) - President of the French Republic | Unowned |
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Michel Ciment | Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic | Unowned |
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Catherine Ellsberg | Self - Professor | Unowned |
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Robert O. Paxton | Self (archive footage) - Historian | Unowned |
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Pierre-André Teitgen | Self (archive footage) - Member of Resistance | Unowned |