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Release Date: 24 April, 2001 Retail Price: $49.99 OUR Price: $44.99 You SAVE: $5.00! Cast: |
The Sorrow and the Pity Reviews
A true Mount Everest in the Cinema' s story!
This multinational project included West Germany, Switzerland and France. This milestone picture is one of the most brilliant and demolisher documents about anti-Semitism and the Nazi occupation of France during the Vichy regime in World War II.
The popular belief simply could not accept the idea that most Frenchmen did not fight in the Resistance. Ophlus made an exhaustive investigation and interviewed a lot of people. He focuses on the town of Clermont Fernand that works out as a microcosm, stating clearly they did not fight hard either the religious and racial bigotry.
Filmed in glorious Black & White the running time of 265 min, to be true, it is not perceived due the impressive and absorbing script
A towering and supreme film.
Ophuls strips the veil covering the failure of France to live up to its former glory.
In a searing examination of the French soul, Ophuls has detailed the almost complete failure of the powerful French nation of the mid-twentieth century to contest the Nazi invasion of the country which had been the military giant of the Napoleonic period and the stubborn, enduring survivors and the eventual victors of trench warfare of WW I.
Not only did their leaders kow-tow to the blitz-krieg, but Laval, president of occupied France and Petain, leader of Vichy,
obscenely rushed to collaborate with the invaders of their country in the Nazi genocide.
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