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The Sorrow and the Pity

starring: Georges Bidault, Maurice Chevalier, R. Du Jonchay, Anthony Eden, Marcel Fouche-Degliame

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381952629
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 24, 2001
Running Time: 251 minutes
Sales Rank: 7259
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 25, 1972



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Description:
A chronicle of a French city under the occupation. Director Marcel Ophuls combined interviews and archival film footage to explore the reality of the French occupation in one small industrial city, Clermont-Ferrand. He spoke with resistance fighters, collaborators, spies, farmers, government officials, writers, artists and veterans. The result is a shattering portrait of how ordinary people actually conducted themselves under extraordinary circumstances. By turns gripping, horrifying, and inspiring, Academy Award nominee 'The Sorrow and the Pity' is a triumph of humanist filmmaking and a testament to the power of cinema. Before 'Shoah,' 'Schindler's List,' 'The Long Way Home' and 'The Last Days,' there was 'The Sorrow and the Pity.'

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Often hailed as one of the greatest documentaries of all time, The Sorrow and the Pity is still astonishing long after its original release in Paris. The lengthy film (anyone who has heard it prominently referred to in Woody Allen's Annie Hall knows it's four hours long) tells the story of France under Nazi occupation by weaving together a number of interviews as well as newsreel clips and propaganda films shot by the Nazis. Director Marcel Ophüls skillfully utilizes interviews with people who often contradict each other, so the story of France not only occupied but divided against itself emerges fully. Filmed in the late 1960s, when bitter memories still resonated, the interviews conducted by Ophüls have great depth and are often amazing. Ordinary Frenchmen who found themselves performing heroic acts for the Resistance recall the dangers they faced while those who collaborated with the Nazis make excuses. A former Nazi officer interviewed at a wedding party in Germany pompously puts a benign face on what occurred where he was stationed; interviews with French residents utterly refute his sanitized version of the past. Beyond the interviews, the arresting archival footage chosen by Ophüls is remarkable, such as an unsettling clip of a stand-up comedian performing before a laughing audience whose collar insignias identify them as members of the fanatical Nazi SS. The Sorrow and the Pity lives up to its reputation as being a magnificent documentary. --Robert J. McNamara



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Fascinating film
This is a fascinating film, and one interesting thing it does is cut from the then present to the ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - France against itself
'The Sorrow and the Pity' isn't light viewing. It is, for the most part, a dry, far-too-long documentary ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Outstanding movie. Terrible DVD
OK, I want add to the other comments about the actual movie, it is great. My complaint with this is the poor ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Absolutely essential
At first, I thought I wouldn't feel really involved with this documentary because it largely consisted of a bunch ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Sorrow and the Pity
A milestone of documentary film-making, "Sorrow" captures this devastating period in France's history in painfully ... Read More

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