Torrential

The Sorrow and the Pity

Chronicle of a French City under the Occupation

An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration between France’s Vichy government and Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944.

Documentary History War

Georges Bidault

(Self)

Matthäus Bleibinger

(Self - Wehrmacht Soldier in the Auvergne)

Jacques Duclos

(Self - former secretary of the clandestine Communist Party)

Anthony Eden

(Self - Winston Churchill's foreign Secretary 1940-1945)

Pierre Mendès France

(Self - Former Prime Minister of France)

Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie

(Self - Founder of the Liberation Résistance Movement)

Maurice Chevalier

(Self - Denies Making Tour of Germany (archive footage))

Marcel Ophüls

(Self - Interviewer)

André Harris

(Self - Interviewer)