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Le chagrin et la pitié [The Sorrow and the Pity] (Marcel Ophüls, 1969)
Ophüls documents the people of Clermont-Ferrand as the microcosm of Vichy France, part of Europe's only country that happily collaborated with its occupier, Nazi Germany. What were their justifications, their excuses, their motivations? Was it survival, habit, greed? Comfort, conformity, obedience, fear?

And what's yours?

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Marcel Ophuls, best known for "The Sorrow and the Pity" and "Hotel Terminus", has died at 97.

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Rest in Power directors Marcel Ophuls (b. 1927) and Michael Roemer (b. 1928)

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Marcel Ophüls ist gestorben mit 97 Jahren.

Zeit, auf seinen 1989 mit dem Oscar prämierten Dokumentarfilm Hotel Terminus hinzuweisen.

Eine der beeindrucksten, erschütterndsten Aufarbeitungen des kriminellen, menschenverachtenden Nazi-Terrors, in diesem Fall mit dem Fokus auf Klaus Barbei, den Schlächter von Lyon.

https://youtu.be/xE4nzXHleGY?si=ovTf_2HzShfEKIx9

Marcel Ophuls, one of the greatest documentarians of his era, died on Saturday at age 97. The son of famed director Max Opuls, he was born in Germany, but fled to France to escape the Nazis and ended up in Hollywood. His 1969 film, "The Sorrow and the Pity," explored the moral ambiguity of French people under German occupation in WWII, and was banned from French television for more than a decade because, TV executives said, it "destroyed the myths the French still need." He won an Oscar for “Hôtel Terminus,” his 1988 portrait of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie. Here's more from PBS.

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Marcel Ophuls Dead at 97: ‘The Sorrow And The Pity’ Documentarian Remembered
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Marcel Ophuls Dies: ‘The Sorrow And The Pity’ Filmmaker Was 97
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Poster: "The Sorrow and the Pity" via Internet Movie Poster Awards
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Regisseur Marcel Ophüls im Alter von 97 Jahren gestorben

Der deutsch-französische Dokumentarfilmer Marcel Ophüls ist im Alter von 97 Jahre gestorben. Zeitlebens setzte er sich mit dem Nationalsozialismus auseinander. Für seinen Film "Hotel Terminus" erhielt der Regisseur 1989 einen Oscar.

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