The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
20/03/2024
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.
Movie Information
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
