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The Sorrow and the Pity

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The Sorrow and the Pity	comment	The Sorrow and the Pity is a 1969 film directed by Marcel Ophuls.It is a documentary recounting the history of France's defeat in World War II and the following four years in which France was occupied by the Germans and governed by the Nazi-friendly "Vichy France" regime of Marshal Phillipe Petain. Ophuls centers his film around the town of Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne. Part I, "The Collapse", prominently features Pierre Mendes-France, a Resistance leader who joined Charles de Gaulle in Britain, fought against the Germans, and became a prominent post-war politician who was briefly Prime Minister of France. Part II, "The Choice", takes the opposite perspective and features Christian de la Maziere, an aristocratic fascist who fought for Hitler in the French division of the Waffen SS, and who later served a brief prison term.The overall theme of the film is that the romantic tales of the French Resistance were not the norm, and that in fact, most of the people of France either were indifferent or actively collaborated with the Germans.Years later, Ophuls would return with Hotel Terminus which deals with the trial of Klaus Barbie, the Nazi official who oversaw operations in Lyon that led to the arrest and death of Jean Moulin, and likewise revisits the memory of Occupation and Resistance.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: A Clermont pharmacist and Resistance member is asked if there was anything besides courage in the Resistance. He answers “Of course. But the two emotions I experienced most often were sorrow and pity.”
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: At the very end of the movie, none other than Maurice Chevalier is featured in a stock footage interview in which he says, in English, that he did not make a tour of Nazi Germany but only played one show for French POWs. Then one of Chevalier's songs plays over the last clip of de Gaulle in Clermont, and the closing credits.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: Includes quite a bit of fascist wartime propaganda, both German propaganda aimed at encouraging the French to support the Germans and work in Germany, and homegrown French propaganda urging support of Petain.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: Laval's secret police, which proved pretty good at arresting Jews. They were behind the notorious Round-Up of Vel d'Hiv.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_32785419	type	Redemption Rejection
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_32785419	comment	Redemption Rejection: De la Maziere admits that he was approached by the Resistance more than once, but blew them off.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: Well, they were a thing, as Pierre Mendes-France proves, but very few French people made that choice, especially in the immediate aftermath of defeat. One villager says that he joined the Resistance because he got pissed off when German occupiers ate all the steaks made from local cows. They note that after the war, President Charles de Gaulle upheld the "myth of the resistance" as a necessary noble lie to smooth over reality and heal the tensions.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_34e89418	type	A Birthday, Not a Break
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_34e89418	comment	A Birthday, Not a Break: Anthony Eden recalls his and Churchill's last sad departure from France in June 1940, then mentions that it happened on his birthday.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_36ae273d	type	Traumatic Haircut
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_36ae273d	comment	Traumatic Hair Cut: Women who slept with Nazis were subject to post-war reprisals, where their hair was cut and they were humiliated for their "collaboration horizontale".
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: A cyclist states that the Germans never came to Clermont. After his "We never saw the Germans" is posted on the screen as a title card, the pharmacist appears and notes that Clermont was chock-full of Germans.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: This forms the bulk of the movie, with combat footage, old newsreels, and more.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_5d25f366	type	You Can Leave Your Hat On
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_5d25f366	comment	You Can Leave Your Hat On: A brief clip of topless dancers in Paris, illustrating that while the majority of French people suffered, a few were enjoying the good life.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_6cb9eee2	type	Talking Heads
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_6cb9eee2	comment	Talking Heads: Lots, from VIPs like Anthony Eden and Pierre Mendes-France to humble, common citizens of Clermont.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: Lots of them. Lots and lots. De la Mazière was only one of 7,000 Frenchmen to serve in the "Charlemagne" division of the Waffen SS. Dr. Levy claims that the French regime under Laval passed laws that were even more racist than in Germany, and arrested Jewish children when the Nazi occupiers hadn't even asked them to.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_a51933bd	type	Icon of Rebellion
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_a51933bd	comment	Icon of Rebellion: Charles de Gaulle.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_aba51fc7	type	Nazi Nobleman
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_aba51fc7	comment	Nazi Nobleman: A chyron describes De la Mazière as "an aristocratic former Nazi."
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Pierre Laval didn't live to say it, but his son-in-law defends him by saying that Laval made hard choices in order to save as many French Jews as possible. This is immediately followed by an interview with Dr. Claude Levy in which Levy says that any government that would hand over people to the Nazis isn't worthy of its country. Some of the interviewees also imply that de Gaulle had to promote a "myth of the Resistance" (that the majority of France had resisted against the Nazis and collaborators were few, rather than the reverse) because in the immediate aftermath where so much bitterness and post-war violence and recrimination was brewing, another alternative could have led to civil war. The documentary also states and implies that this was a case for many French artists who had to work in Occupied France, and in the case of Maurice Chevalier, even perform before Nazi soldiers. Chevalier appears in the end where he briefly acknowledges the unpleasant situation of the Occupation before singing a song that plays over the credits.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_b7227261	type	Shocking Defeat Legacy
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_b7227261	comment	Shocking Defeat Legacy: The fall of France and the collapse of the Maginot Line is treated as this. Ophuls also takes time to interview some of the German generals behind that attack and the latter, despite Denazification, cannot help but gloat about their victory.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_c64a7400	type	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Discussed. It is noted that France was the only one of the several countries that Hitler conquered to make a formal peace with Nazi Germany. While all of the other countries in Hitler's Europe had governments-in-exile in London, France officially did not. This left Charles De Gaulle and the Free French in a very awkward position and undercut their ability to contribute to the the anti-Nazi war effort, since they had little authority. De Gaulle had to push himself into a position as a leader by pure will and charismatic authority rather than any claim to law. Its official government at the time was in fact the Vichy regime under Petain.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_cb9afcd	type	The Ken Burns Effect
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_cb9afcd	comment	The Ken Burns Effect: Used from time to time with stills. One particularly effective usage has the camera focus on a picture of Petain only to slowly pan over to Hitler, thus illustrating their 1940 summit meeting.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: A problem for the Resistance. An interview with an enthusiastic French Communist is juxtaposed with his leader, an anti-Communist Catholic who opines that the Communists in the Resistance were only in it to defend Russia.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_e9784ee6	type	Epic Movie
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_e9784ee6	comment	Epic Movie: Four hours long! Originally planned as a television documentary until it was banned from airing in France.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
The Sorrow and the Pity / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: A theater owner in Clermont describes the partisans who threw grenades at a column of German soldiers as "terrorists." This was Truth in Television: the Nazis and their puppets described all partisans in every occupied region as terrorists.
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The Sorrow and the Pity / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: M. Menut of the Resistance says his wife, Marinette Menut (who has a street named after her in Clermont) was still alive when she was chucked into a grave by the Germans after being tortured.
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