The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

« Le Chagrin et la Pitié » : La France de Vichy dynamitée

Marcel Ophüls's 1971 docu upends WWII French resistance myths by interviewing collaborators and occupiers. A 2024 film watches France watch itself squirm in real time. The original scandal still stings.

Directed by Joseph Beauregard

Starring Vincent Lowy, Anne Sinclair, Samuel Blumenfeld, Sylvie Lindeperg, Marcel Ophüls, Pascal Breton

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