French film the sorrow and pity

The interviews are fairly rough and ready, shot on black and white film. Bill desowitz reappraises the sorrow and the pity, 1971 film by french director marcel ophuls, which is being rereleased in original, undubbed form. Originally refused by french tv, the film garnered international success and acclaim including an oscar nomination for best documentary and. The film begins and ends with the false joviality of maurice chevalier.

Pdf viewing memory through night and fog, the sorrow and. This newly restored film features exhaustive interviews with enough intriguing figures to fill a dozen spy novels. At berlins european film market efm, the company is also beginning presales on what promises to be a highly controversial new doc from marcel opuls the french director of the sorrow and the pity. The sorrow and the pity was originally made for french television, except that the authorities refused to show it. Woody allen presents marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity. The sorrow and the pity refers to one interviewees description of the emotions he felt during the. But the journey is worth every minute of your time. Sorrow and the pity, the 1969 marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity 1971 is an absorbing portrait of the complexities of survival, resistance or capitulation in nazioccupied france during the second world war. Other than that it is a fantastic documentary that brings to light many questions about the regimes collaboration. The sorrow and the pity leaves you with the peculiar feeling of having spent a good deal of time, over the years, in the small french city of clermontferrand.

By turns gripping, appalling, and exhilarating, the film is one of the most valuable achievements in the history of cinema. Comprised of some two tears work in assembling and interviewing the survivors of frances vichy regime and editing the material down to slightly over four hours seems to have been a herculean task. On the sorrow and the pity commentary commentary magazine. Mar 14, 2010 the sorrow and the pity 1969 is about the elusive search for the truth in the midst of history and memory. Filming took place in 1969, a very short 25years after the end of the occupation. May 23, 2004 the sorrow and the pity philip french. Just a few of the ordinary and famous subjects who document their experience of the war for.

The sorrow and the pity is a must see documentary for anyone who is a serious scholar of wwii history of france. Presented by the american cinematheque and the ucla ophuls film festival. Marcel ophuls in the sorrow and the pity 1969 pierre mendesfrance in the sorrow and the pity. Chronicle of a french city under occupation, marcel ophuls fourandahalfhour epic on germanys world war ii occupation of france, was. The sorrow and pity of arthur millers incident at vichy. The sorrow and the pity was originally made for french television, though it was not aired until 1981. Chronicle of a french city under occupation, marcel ophuls fourandahalfhour epic on germanys world war ii occupation of france, was screened at the recent sydney. A look at the sorrow and the pity of france in world war ii. The sorrow and the pity, part 1 turner classic movies. Marcel ophulss fouranda halfhour documentary film about france under the nazi occupation, the sorrow and the pity, was originally made for television, but it has never been shown on french television. The documentary is particularly notable for the amount of interviews with the people involved. Viewing memory through night and fog, the sorrow and the pity.

The film uses interviews with a german officer, collaborators, and resistance fighters from clermontferrand. A triumph of humanist filmmaking, the sorrow and the pity leaves us with a great awareness of the power and responsibility that each of us possess. In annie hall 1977 alvy singer talks about going to see this film. Away from the subject matter, the film s presentation isnt anything to shout home about, at least in terms of cinematography. The film also offers a glimpse at how perniciously and subtly a nation can be transformed from resistant to compliant through propaganda. The first half of the film is a mosaic of sights and sounds from the years 19401944. Jan 09, 2009 to attend on succeeding days the godfather and marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity is to leap from sprawling triviality to splendor. Viewing memory through night and fog, the sorrow and the pity and shoah. This is indeed an interesting film with great wwii footage. Ophuls centers his film around the town of clermontferrand in auvergne.

Marcel ophuls is often credited with exposing french collaboration with the nazis in the sorrow and the pity. Released in french cinemas in 1971 after the french television station it was produced for refused to screen it, the sorrow and the pity became an overnight sensation. The former pages history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted so long as the latter page exists. Following the success of the sorrow and the pity, ophuls continued to produce historical documentaries on a wide variety of social issues. Jan 19, 2001 calling milestone film and videos vhs release of marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity the homevideo event of the year may seem premature, but it is hard to imagine that a more.

What happened, who is responsible, and how can we be sure we will never forget. The sorrow and the pity 1972 in the aftermath of world war ii, the french clung vehemently to a belief that theyand their vichy governmenthad resisted the nazi occupation of france. In 1940 hes singing to french prisonersofwar in germany. The sorrow and the pity letterboxd your life in film. This is indeed an interesting film with great wwii.

Episode 2 is actually part 1 of the documentary and episode 1 is part 2. Made for french television, marcel ophuls fourhourplus documentary. When the film was first released in 1969 in west germany and switzerland, it created a furor. These are films that reveal specific moments in frances difficult path to assessing the events of the dark years. The sorrow and the pity us uk, dvd bluray comparison. Aug 15, 2015 the film, the sorrow and the pity original title. In his most acclaimed film, the sorrow and the pity 1970, he explored the world war ii collaboration of french citizens and their complicity in the holocaust. Produced in the late 1960s, the sorrow and the pity brings a level headed approach to the past. The sorrow and the pity 1969 letterboxd your life in film. In a series of interviews with both supporters and opponents of the french german. After 12 years, french see a controversial war film. This pioneering study analyzes representations of the holocaust in french cinema from 1940 on. Like shoah, the sorrow and the pity is a movie that fully captures the power of talking heads. The sorrow and the pity 1969 documentary movie full hd georges bidault, matthaus bleibinger by jar koni.

So a great film overall, just the episodes are mismatched. Collaboration and resistance in vichy france world. Marcel ophuls landmark 1969 documentary boils it down to a more manageable. These firstperson accounts of life in vichy france are by turns saddening, infuriating, horrifying, and even amusingbut always illuminating. Due to this unvarnished image of the french people, the sorrow and the pity was banned from french television until 1981. Marcel ophulss fouranda halfhour documentary film about france under the nazi occupation, the sorrow and the pity, was originally made. Dont miss out on that because the film will run in french automatically. Mainly the reason is that this film poses a mighty and devastating challenge to the official version of the french experience in world war. It is a documentary recounting the history of frances defeat in world war ii and the following four years in which france was occupied by the germans and governed by the nazifriendly vichy france regime of marshal phillipe petain.

The sorrow and the pity refers to one interviewees description of the emotions he felt during the occupation. But arthur millers incident at vichy, now playing in new york, was an. The sorrow and the pity leaves you with the peculiar feeling of having spent a good deal of time, over the years, in the small french city of. By turns gripping, horrifying, and inspiring, academy award nominee the sorrow and the pity is a triumph of humanist filmmaking and a testament to the power of cinema. Jul 07, 2000 presented by woody allen, who used the film as a cultural touchstone in annie hall, the sorrow and the pity is, in one key respect, an improvement over what americans saw in the early. The long shadow of the sorrow and the pity the new york. Between 1955 and 1983, three french film documentaries displaced our understanding of the events of world war ii. The sorrow and the pity takes a long time to lay out its points, but the film is always fascinating. An epic chronicle of collaboration and resistance in the french provincial town of clermontferrand between the capitulation of 1940. The movie is 251 minutes long, and, in its dvd debut from image entertainment, comes in a twodisc set. May 07, 2000 bill desowitz reappraises the sorrow and the pity, 1971 film by french director marcel ophuls, which is being rereleased in original, undubbed form. Visible ink press, 1999 marcel ophulss great 1971 the sorrow and the pity is the result of the questioning of a widely held belief that every man, woman and child who lived in nazi. The sorrow and the pity 1969 a small excerpt of an interview with a clermont businessman.

The sorrow and the pity essay by elliot wilhelm, videohounds world cinema, detroit. In addition, he served on the board of the french filmmakers society. The sorrow and the pity is a 1969 film directed by marcel ophuls. At a brisk 66 minutes, it unspools like a much shorter, cinemacentric version of marcel ophulss epic documentary the sorrow and the pity 1969, the searing jaccuse that vaporized the glorious myth of consensual french resistance during the nazi occupation. The sorrow and the pity vostfr streaming en francais. It provides a fascinating window into the lives of normal people swept up in traumatic events. In this case help would be welcome to explain specific points to viewers unaware issues like the occupied and unoccupied zones, and the discussion of the french navys being attacked by the british. Marcel ophuls 4 12 half hour documentary is about the german occupation of a french town during the second world war. The sorrow and the pity vostfr streaming complet en. Beyond directing, he also acted and wrote magazine articles for periodicals such as american film. Maurice chevalier singing for the german troops, clips of propagandistic newsreels, appalling vignettes from the scurrilous antisemitic film drama jew suss 1940, and the like. You even knew some of their secrets, and what they privately think of one another.

Apr 24, 2001 image entertainments dvd of the sorrow and the pity is a fine disc with sound and picture quality the equal or better than original prints. Along with night and fog and shoah, marcel ophuls oscarnominated documentary about the french governments collaboration with germany during the nazi occupation is one of the most important cinematic documents of the horrors of world war two. Marcel ophuls the sorrow and the pity 1971 is an absorbing portrait of the complexities of survival, resistance or capitulation in nazioccupied france during the second world war. The film has been banned in france for more than ten years it wasnt aired on tv until 1981, supposedly because it was too onesided, but. This twopart look at the collaboration between the french government in vichy and the nazis during wwii is one of the most devastating films ever made. A side of french history, today mostly hidden, is presented. Director marcel ophuls combined interviews and archival film footage to explore the reality of the french. The sorrow and the pity 1969 directed by marcel ophuls.

Mar 06, 2020 marcel ophuls seminal documentary, the sorrow and the pity french. Originally created for french television in 1969, it eventually became an international success, nominated for an oscar in 1972. An indepth exploration of the various reactions by the french people to the vichy. The long shadow of the sorrow and the pity the new.

A work which helped change the way france viewed its own past, the sorrow and the pity is an impressively assembled documentary which combines archival. Through the use of such pivotal films as night and fog, the sorrow and the pity, and shoah, it examines the difficulties with which french cinema answers three main questions. Outerbridge and lazard nightandfog decree nachtundnebel erlass. Bill desowitz reappraises the sorrow and the pity, 1971 film by french director marcel ophuls, which is being rereleased in original. Feb 21, 2016 the sorrow and the pity 1969 a small excerpt of an interview with a clermont businessman. Chronique dune ville francaise sous loccupation, is a documentary by marcel ophuls and andre harris. The sorrow and the pity, a 55minute debate that followed the film s belated 1981 french television premiere, in which ophuls and historians henri amouroux and alain guerin discuss the film and the issues that it raises with an audience of students from clermontferrand. The sorrow and the pity is a 1969 film directed by marcel ophuls it is a documentary recounting the history of frances defeat in world war ii and the following four years in which france was occupied by the germans and governed by the nazifriendly vichy france regime of marshal phillipe petain.

Viewing memory through night and fog, the sorrow and the. Find out where the sorrow and the pity is streaming, if the sorrow and the pity is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Watch the sorrow and the pity online 1971 movie yidio. Youve got to have time on your hands, and a little bit of patience to allow ophuls to unravel all the strands of the french attitude under german occupation. It places a particular focus on the collaboration between nazi controlled germany and the vichy. His documentary requires a great deal of concentration which makes dvd presentation of it ideal. Marcel ophuls landmark 1969 documentary boils it down. The film so shocked the french that it was banned from television broadcast until 1981. The sorrow and the pity is a documentary which focuses on the events of world war ii. From 1940 to 1944, frances vichy government collaborated with nazi germany.

A film by marcel ophuls biographical and appendix material by mireille johnston new york. Reversible sleeve featuring new and original artwork. The sorrow and the pity is a monumental documentary concerning french collaboration and accommodation during the nazi occupation of france. This a long but historically relevant film thats wonderfully fascinating. Before shoah, schindlers list, the long way home, and the last days, there was the sorrow and the pity. The most important film of its kind ever made see more. The nazi occupation of france lasted more than four years. Rent the sorrow and the pity 1972 on dvd and bluray. Text andor other creative content from this version of french resistance was copied or moved into the sorrow and the pity with this edit on 00.