Marcel Ophuls, the renowned, Oscar-winning documentarian whose controversial and epic “The Sorrow and the Pity” was a worldwide success, has died. He was 97. His death was reported to the New ...

An ode to a monumental film — and a lesson for 2025 “The Sorrow and the Pity” is a timely masterpiece from Marcel Ophuls, who died on Saturday.

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker's landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis during World War II.

Marcel Ophuls, ‘Sorrow and the Pity’ Documentarian, Dies at 97. Ophuls was also behind the influential docs 'Hotel Terminus,' 'A Sense of Loss,' 'The Memory of Justice' and 'Veillees d'armes.' ...

Marcel Ophuls, the acclaimed French Jewish documentary filmmaker whose landmark 1969 film “The Sorrow and the Pity” compelled France to confront its national shame over its collaborationist ...

PARIS — Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis ...

It was in 1969, though, that Ophuls made his seminal work, documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity.” The film was originally intended to air on television and was commissioned by a French ...

Among his post-Sorrow credits, Ophuls directed the Oscar-winning 1988 documentarey Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.The film opened to acclaim, but would not replace The Sorrow ...

“The Sorrow and the Pity,” which Ophuls made in 1969, hit French society like a ton of bricks. The four-and-a-half hour film explored in tireless detail, and in ways previously unknown or ...