The Sorrow and the Pity

Original title: Le Chagrin et la Pitié

Chronicle of a French city under the Occupation

• Documentary
• War & Politics

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.

Created by

Marcel Ophüls

First aired

18 September 1969

Network

Das Erste