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.

Cast

Vincent Lowy

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Anne Sinclair

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Samuel Blumenfeld

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Sylvie Lindeperg

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Marcel Ophüls

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Pascal Breton

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André Harris

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André Gazut

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Pascal Ory

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Henry Rousso

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Laurent Joly

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Claude Vajda

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Claus Leggewie

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Simone Veil

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Antoine Spire

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Vincent Malle

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Hélène Mouchard-Zay

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Henri Leclerc

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Annette Lévy-Willard

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Antoine Silber

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François Heilbronn

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Charles-Henri Favrod

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Denis Rake

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Georges Pompidou

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Michel Ciment

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Catherine Ellsberg

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Robert O. Paxton

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Pierre-André Teitgen

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