A very enlightening documentary on the French an Vichy government. Unable to add item to List. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring writing on the film by Pauline Kael and Jean-Pierre Melville, plus extensive historical context. Set during the occupation of France, but could cover any countries occupation. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2018. A Resistance Leader asserts that he was barely in control of anything and doubted the wisdom of those who followed him.

DVD Release Date: 24 Aug. 2009; Run Time: 249 minutes; Customer reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 customer ratings; ASIN: B002BAXBO4; Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 55,663 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray) #3184 in Documentary (DVD & Blu-ray) #15129 in Television (DVD & Blu-ray) Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. To blank out the bad reflects on all. Describing the fall of France and the rise of the Resistance, with the aid of newly-shot interviews and eye-opening archive footage including newsreels and propaganda films, Ophuls painstakingly crafts a complex, nuanced picture of what really happened in France over this period. For a documentarian who clearly is opening old wounds he is uncommonly fair -- Frenchmen are surely still arguing the Dreyfuss case. The Sorrow and the Pity [DVD] [1969] (Version française), This will not play on most DVD players sold in the U.S., U.S. Image Entertainment's DVD of The Sorrow and the Pity is a fine disc with sound and picture quality the equal or better than original prints. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. A haunting story of the interactions of the people of a small community living under the oppressive weight of Nazi Germany, and the political repercussions faced by the citizens. Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Also recommended is Alan Massie's 'A Question of Loyalties' - which explores the complex moral choices forced on very ordinary people finding themselves in the invidious situation which was occupied France in WW2. Feeling their frightened way in the dark of present events, not judging them from the virtuous high-ground of hindsight. It turns out to be a fast 4-plus hours, if you break it into its two parts (The Collapse, The Choice) and watch it over two nights.