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Le chagrin et la pitie : chronique d'une ville française sous l'occupation = The sorrow and the pity : chronicle of a French city under the Occupation / un film de Marcel Ophuls ; production, Andre Harris, Alain de Sedouy (T.V. Rencontre) ; scénario et interviews, Marcel Ophuls, Andre Harris ; réalisation, Marcel Ophuls ; Television Rencontre, Norddeutscher Rundfunkt, Television Suisse Romande.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Ophuls, Marcel, 1927-2025, film director, screenwriter, interviewer.
Harris, André, 1933- screenwriter, film producer.
Sédouy, Alain de, 1929-2024, film producer.
Gazut, André, cinematographer.
Thieme, Jürgen (Cinematographer), cinematographer.
Vajda, Claude, editor of moving image work.
Télévision rencontre, film production company.
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Norddeutscher Rundfunk, film production company.
Radio-télévision suisse romande, film production company.
Milestone Film & Video, publisher.
Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm), film distributor.
Series:
Milestone cinematheque
Language:
English
French
German
Subjects (All):
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
France.
Clermont-Ferrand (France)--History.
Clermont-Ferrand (France).
World War, 1939-1945--France--Clermont-Ferrand.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
Jews--France--History--20th century.
Jews.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Collaborationists.
War--Underground movements.
War and motion pictures.
France--Clermont-Ferrand.
Genre:
French language films.
German language films.
Documentary films.
Historical films.
History.
Made-for-TV movies.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (251 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
DVD 4 3/4 in.
Distribution:
[United States] : Oscilloscope Laboratories, [2011]
Other Title:
English and container title: Sorrow and the pity : chronicle of a French city under the Occupation
Place of Publication:
[Harrington Park, New Jersey] : Milestone Film & Video, [2011]
Language Note:
In French and German; with English subtitles.
System Details:
DVD, NTSC, all regions; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; stereo.
digital optical stereo
videodisc NTSC
video file DVD video all regions
Summary:
Through interviews with participants and newsreel footage, examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II as it occurred in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.
Contents:
Part one. Collapse (122 min.)
Part two. Choice (128 min.).
Part one: The collapse. Two brothers
The arrival of the Germans
A changing political climate
The legion of companions
The Marshall's visit ; Discussing the French & British navies
Race ideology
Franco-German economic collaboration
The written word
On trial for desertion
Work, family & nation
The French drama ; Anti-semitic films
The resistance in Auvergne.
Part two: The choice. Clermont remembered
Almost too nice
The resistance and Allied forces
The various levels of French society
The early resistance
The black sheep
The issue of communism
De Gaulle and the free French
The words of Laval ; Anti-semitism
A visit to Sigmaringen Castle
Defeating Bolshevism
Different states of mind
The price of a wig
Judge & jury.
Participant:
Marcel Ophuls, interviewer ; Pierre Mendes-France, Sir Anthony Eden, Claude Levy, Denis Rake, Alexis and Louis Grave, Maurice Chevalier.
Credits:
Photography, Andre Gazut, Jürgen Thieme; editing, Claude Vajda ; music, the voice of Maurice Chevalier.
Notes:
Originally made for French television in 1969 but not broadcast ; released theatrically in France in 1971.
"Woody Allen presents"--Container.
Includes theatrical trailers.
1971 Academy Award nominee for Best Feature Documentary Film.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
ISBN:
9781933920283
1933920289
OCLC:
752817867
Publisher Number:
784148007441
MILE0074 Milestone Film & Video

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