It may seem lengthy at 251 minutes but with a good bottle of French wine, or two, and some history interested friends, it is well worth while. Highly recommended.
Travel, Food, History and Life around Victoria BC, Canada.
Saturday 14 July 2018
The Sorrow and the Pity
My wife and I like history and also like documentaries. The Sorrow and the Pity, a French documentary by Marcel Ophuls, was done in 1969 and featured interviews of people who lived during the occupation of France by the Germans during WW2.
The interview questions and film reels follow the sequence of pre-occupation, during, and immediately after. The persons interviewed are very open about their experiences and provides an human look at this time period in France's history. Sometimes funny, sometimes brutal, always honest. Was an academy award nominee in the year it came out.
It may seem lengthy at 251 minutes but with a good bottle of French wine, or two, and some history interested friends, it is well worth while. Highly recommended.
It may seem lengthy at 251 minutes but with a good bottle of French wine, or two, and some history interested friends, it is well worth while. Highly recommended.
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