Robert O. Paxton Trailers
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France TrailerLes lois anti-juives de Vichy, 1940-1944 TrailerIl était une fois... « Lacombe Lucien » Trailer
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France TrailerLes lois anti-juives de Vichy, 1940-1944 TrailerIl était une fois... « Lacombe Lucien » Trailer
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20 March 2024
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.
20 May 1993
Directed by French filmmaker Claude Chabrol, this documentary examines Nazi and Vichy newsreels and propaganda films from World War II meant to turn the French against the Jews and the Allied Forces and into Nazi sympathizers.