Sorrow and the Pity
(2021, original release: 1971)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Kino Lorber, 1971
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (250 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
12557321
LANGUAGE
French
NOTES

Title from title frames

From its first release at an underground theater in Paris, this account of France's occupation under Nazi regime has been acclaimed as one of the most moving and influential films ever made. Director Marcel Ophüls interviewed the residents of Clermont-Ferrand who remembered the occupation, as well as government officials, writers, farmers, artists, and German veterans. Here, in their own words, is the story of how ordinary citizens and leaders alike behaved under military siege. Originally refused by French TV, the film garnered international success and acclaim – including an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary – while shattering the myth of an undivided and universally resistant France under the Vichy government. A triumph of on-the-ground filmmaking, THE SORROW AND THE PITY remains gripping, appalling, and exhilarating for its transparent view upon humanity

Film

In Process Record

Pierre Mendès France, Robert Anthony Eden

Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 1971

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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