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Dominican Rep. The Sorrow and the Pity
- Original title
- Le chagrin et la pitié
- Year
- 1969
- Running time
- 251 min.
- Country
France- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Documentary
- Cinematography
- André Gazut, Jürgen Thieme (B&W)
- Producer
- Co-production France-Switzerland-Germany;
- Genre
- Documentary. War | II World War. Nazism
- Synopsis
- From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse," includes an extended interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy action and later France's Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, "The Choice," is an interview with René de Chambrun, one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms.
- Awards
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1971: Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary1971: BAFTA Awards: Best Foreign TV Programme1972: National Board of Review: Best Foreign Language Film and Top Foreign Films1973: New York Film Critics Circle: Special Citation1972: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Picture.
- Critics' reviews
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"An artistic and intellectual triumph!"
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