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Marcel Ophuls Dies: ‘The Sorrow And The Pity’ Filmmaker Was 97
Marcel Ophuls, the director of the seminal 1969 documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, died over the weekend. He was 97.
Marcel Ophuls, the director of the seminal 1969 documentary The Sorrow and the Pity that explored the collaboration between the Vichy government and Nazi Germany during World War II, died at his home in in France over the weekend. Born on November 1, 1927, in Frankfurt, Germany – his father was film director Max Ophüls and his mother was actress Hildegard Wall, Ophuls was 11 when he and his parents fled France after the country was invaded by the Nazis. Back in France, Ophuls found work in the city’s film industry, including assisting his director father, and on John Huston’s Moulin Rouge(1952).
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