Le chagrin et la pitié : chronique d'une ville française sous l'occupation = The sorrow and the pity : chronicle of a French city under the Occupation / Productions Télévision Rencontre S.A. ; réalisation, Marcel Ophuls ; scénario et interviews, Marcel Ophuls, André Harris ; production, André Harris, Alain de Sedouy.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-1441 Disc 1-2

Overview

Summary: Through interviews with participants and newsreel footage, examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II as it occurred in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.
Variant Title: Sorrow and the pity
Chronique d'une ville française sous l'occupation
Series: Milestone collection
Milestone collection.
Format: Video
Published: [Harrington Park, NJ] : Milestone Film & Video ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, 2000
©1969
Locale: France
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Edition: Restored edition
Contents: pt. 1. L'effrondrement = The collapse
pt. 2. Le choix = The choice.
Other Authors/Editors: Ophüls, Marcel, film director.
Harris, André, 1933- screen writer.
Sédouy, Alain de, 1929-
Mendès France, Pierre, 1907-1982, interviewee.
Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977, interviewee.
Lévy, Claude, interviewee.
Chevalier, Maurice, 1888-1972, interviewee.
Télévision rencontre.
Milestone Film & Video.
Image Entertainment (Firm)
Notes: Videodisc release of the 1969 motion picture.

On container: "Woody Allen presents."

pt. 1. L'effrondrement = The collapse -- pt. 2. Le choix = The choice.

Photography, André Gazut, Jürgen Thieme.

Featuring Pierre Mendès-France, Sir Anthony Eden, Claude Lévy, Denis Rake, Alexis and Louis Grave and Maurice Chevalier.

DVD ; Dolby digital ; mono.

French with English subtitles.

Language: French
Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (251 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--France--Clermont-Ferrand. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war. Historical films. France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Clermont-Ferrand (France)--History. Collaborationists. Underground movements, War. War and motion pictures. France. France--Clermont-Ferrand. occupation militaire--France--1940--1945--DVD vidéo. Clermont-Ferrand (France)--1940--1945--DVD vidéo. France--1940--1945--DVD vidéo. Documentary films. Feature films. History. French language films. Nonfiction films. Video recordings.

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