The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)

The Sorrow and the Pity (1971) - Documentary Movies 251 minutes. . 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. vichy regime, world war ii, german occupation of france, nazi collaborationism, nazi occupation, occupied france (1940-44), ww2, philippe pétain, wwii, vichy