The Sorrow and the Pity

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The Sorrow and the Pity
Movie poster
French	Le Chagrin et la Pitié
Directed by	Marcel Ophuls
Written by	Marcel Ophuls André Harris
Produced by	Alain de Sedouy André Harris
Cinematography	André Gazut Jürgen Thieme
Edited by	Claude Vajda
Production companies	Norddeutscher Rundfunk Société suisse de radiodiffusion
Release date	18 September 1969 (1969-September-18)
Running time	251 minutes
Countries	France West Germany Switzerland
Languages	French German English[1][2]
Box office	$13,082[3][4]

The Sorrow and the Pity (French: Le Chagrin et la Pitié) is a two-part 1969 documentary film by Marcel Ophuls about the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II. The film uses interviews with a German officer, collaborators, and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature of and reasons for collaboration, including antisemitism, Anglophobia, fear of Bolsheviks and Soviet invasion, and the desire for power.

The title comes from a comment by interviewee Marcel Verdier, a pharmacist in Montferrat, Isère, who says "the two emotions I experienced the most [during the Nazi occupation] were sorrow and pity".