The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France (2024)

Summary

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.

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Cast
Crew

Vincent Lowy

as Self - Historian
Anne Sinclair

as Self - Journalist
Samuel Blumenfeld

as Self - Historian
Sylvie Lindeperg

as Self - Historian
Marcel Ophüls

as Self (archive footage) - Director ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
Pascal Breton

as Self - Producer
André Harris

as Self - Co-Author ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
André Gazut

as Self - Director of Photography
Pascal Ory

as Self - Historian
Henry Rousso

as Self - Historian
Laurent Joly

as Self - Historian
Claude Vajda

as Self (voice) (archive sound) - Assistant and Editor ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
Claus Leggewie

as Self - Political Scientist
Simone Veil

as Self (voice) (archive sound) - Magistrate
Antoine Spire

as Self - Journalist
Vincent Malle

as Self - Distributor
Hélène Mouchard-Zay

as Self - Jean Zay's Daughter
Henri Leclerc

as Self - Lawyer
Annette Lévy-Willard

as Self - Journalist
Antoine Silber

as Self - Journalist
François Heilbronn

as Self - Professor
Charles-Henri Favrod

as Self (voice) (archive sound) - Producer ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
Denis Rake

as Self (archive footage) - Secret Agent, Interviewee ("Le Chagrin et la Pitié")
Georges Pompidou

as Self (archive footage) - President of the French Republic
Michel Ciment

as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic
Catherine Ellsberg

as Self - Professor
Robert O. Paxton

as Self (archive footage) - Historian
Pierre-André Teitgen

as Self (archive footage) - Member of Resistance