The Sorrow and the Pity

Chronicle of a French city under the Occupation

An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II, between the Vichy regime, established in the south of France and headed by Marshal Pétain, and Nazi Germany.

Documentary War & Politics

Marcel Ophüls

(Self - Interviewer)

André Harris

(Self - Interviewer)

Solange Azan

(Self)

Georges Bidault

(Self)

Matthäus Bleibinger

(Self)

Charles Braun

(Self)

Maurice Buckmaster

(Self)

Emile Coulaudon

(Self)

Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie

(Self)

René de Chambrun

(Self)

Christian de la Mazière

(Self)

Jacques Duclos

(Self)

Raymond Du Jonchay

(Self)

Anthony Eden

(Self)

Marcel Fouche-Degliame

(Self)

Raphaël Géminiani

(Self)

Alexis Grave

(Self)

Louis Grave

(Self)

Marius Klein

(Self)

Georges Lamirand

(Self)

Pierre Le Calvez

(Self)

Claude Levy

(Self)

Pierre Mendès France

(Self)

Elmar Michel

(Self)

Denis Rake

(Self)

Henri Rochat

(Self)

Paul Schmidt

(Self)

Edward Spears

(Self)

Georg Stumme

(Self)

Helmut Tausend

(Self)

Roger Tounze

(Self)

Marcel Verdier

(Self)

Walter Warlimont

(Self)

Maurice Chevalier

(Self (archive footage))