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Bookmark this pageLe Chagrin et la Pitié (1969)
Director: Marcel Ophuls
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From Time Out Film Guide
An account of the Nazi occupation of France, with particular reference to the town of Clermont-Ferrand, this is an orthodox mixture of contemporary newsreels and present-day interviews. Those questioned include politicians, collaborators, résistants, a French admiral, a Wehrmacht captain, a British secret agent - and of course the man and woman in the street who concentrated on just getting through the thing. The mosaic is comprehensive, the documentation overwhelming, particularly regarding the nature and extent of collaboration. In France, of course, the film was dynamite. Other countries, other generations may - or may not - be in sympathy with Anthony Eden, as he firmly declines to condemn those placed in a predicament which he and his compatriots were spared.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Marcel Ophuls
Producer: André Harris, Alain de Sedouy
Cast: Georges Bidault, Maurice Buckmaster, Sir Anthony Eden, Claude Lévy, Pierre Mendès-France, Walter Warlimont full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 262 mins
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