Marcel Ophuls' THE SORROW AND THE PITY ('71) is an absorbing portrait of the complexities of survival, resistance or capitulation in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War. Ophuls' four-hour plus documentary is set in and around the French provincial town of Clemont-Ferrand where the director challenges the notion that all of France resisted the Nazi invasion of their country. Divided into two parts, Ophuls' documentary unfolds slowly, and the pace reveals an intentional strategy of gr