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8.5/10   1,469 votes
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Director:
Marcel Ophüls
Writers:
André Harris (writer)
Marcel Ophüls (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
25 March 1972 (USA) more
Plot:
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins more
User Comments:
Best Documentary more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Das Haus nebenan - Chronik einer französischen Stadt im Kriege (West Germany)
Le chagrin et la pitié - Chronique d'une ville Français sous l'occupation (France)
The Sorrow and the Pity (USA)
Zorn und Mitleid (West Germany)
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Runtime:
251 min
Language:
French | German | English
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Trivia:
Originally intended for French television but broadcasters refused to show it. more
Quotes:
Georges Bidault: Some people are resistants by nature. In other words, some people are naturally headstrong. Others on the contrary, try to adapt to the circumstances, and get what they can out of it. If you are a resistant over everything and nothing, you're exaggerating. But if you accept everything, you're lying. more
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Referenced in "Ugly Betty: Zero Worship (#2.11)" (2008) more

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11 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
Best Documentary, 22 January 2005
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Author: Drew H. from Chicago

Far and away the BEST documentary I've ever seen! I've only seen it once, in a theatre, about 32 years ago, but the images and the words of the people who told of their Occupation experiences still stay with me. I wondered then, and still do, how in the world the filmmaker got his subjects -- especially those who had admittedly collaborated with the Nazis -- to be so forthcoming. To me, that's the value that makes this movie stand head and shoulders above all other documentaries (including those of Michael Moore, whose work I also love): the way Orphuls gets right to the innermost soul of the people he films.

Now that it's out on DVD, I intend to buy it, no matter how overpriced or poor quality -- the film itself is that good.

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