Marcel Ophüls

The Sorrow and the Pity () is a two-part documentary film by Marcel Ophuls that concerns the French Resistance and collaboration with the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II. This 1969 film used interviews of a German...

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...Brown Hall at Washington University. The weekend event will present rarely seen works by legendary directors Jean-Luc Godard and Marcel Ophuls, as well as three new French movies that haven't yet screened in St. Louis. Coincidentally,...

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...are shocking, evocative, world-changing. Of course, all the filmmakers he goes on to name who do this well-Jean-Pierre Melville, Marcel Ophuls, and Claude Lanzmann-are Jewish. Theirs is the Jewish way. Rather than burn film, they develop...

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...film begins in occupied France, so we suggest two excellent films about the French Resistance (both made in 1969); Marcel Ophuls' documentary "The Sorrow and the Pity" and Jean-Pierre Melville's "Army of Shadows," based on a book by...

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...E1 from 16 October. Laura Cumming Film There was an explosion of German movies when the Wall came down, beginning with Marcel Ophuls's TV documentary November Days: Voices and Choices (1990). Partly financed by the BBC, it contains...

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...her. Somewhat reminiscent of Claude Miller's "A Secret" (2007), "One Day You'll Understand" is a minor work on a major subject. Marcel Ophuls' 4-hour documentary "Hotel Terminus" (1988) remains the scathing heavyweight slugger on this...

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The Memory of Justice is a 1976 documentary film directed by Marcel Ophuls. It explores the subject of atrocities committed in wartime and features Joan Baez, Karl Donitz, Hermann Goring, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Yehudi Menuhin, Albert...

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...resist at any cost, and a majority making prudent calculations about the safety of their own homes, families, communities. In Marcel Ophuls's remarkable film about occupied France, The Sorrow and the Pity, Anthony Eden justly remarks that no...

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Marcel Ophuls (born November 1, 1927) is a documentary film maker and former actor. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Max Ophuls. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950. Munich or Peace in our Time...

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...counterfeit claim to nobility). A few years later, she saw the same name in the English subtitles to "The Sorrow and the Pity," Marcel Ophuls's famous documentary about Vichy France. After preliminary research disclosed that Anne's father...

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