Marcel Ophuls
April, 1973
The finest documentary of last year---perhaps of any year---has got to be The Sorrow and the Pity, a four-and-a-half-hour film that combines cinéma vérité interviews with old newsreel footage to re-create the Nazi occupation of France. Undertaken for, but later rejected by, French TV---partly because it contends that 90 percent of all Frenchmen supported the Vichy regime---Sorrow has scored at all the international festivals; and its director, Marcel Ophuls, 45, traveled from his Munich home to...
