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Marcel Ophuls, Director of ‘The Sorrow and the Pity,’ Dies at 97
Marcel Ophuls, the renowned, Oscar-winning documentarian whose controversial and epic 'The Sorrow and the Pity' was a worldwide success, has died.
He appeared as a Nazi youth in Frank Capra’s wartime propaganda documentary “Prelude to War” and was drafted into service in the Army in 1945, serving in the entertainment unit stationed in Japan. After working for Huston on “Moulin Rouge” in 1952, he helped his father (and appeared briefly) in “Lola Montes,” considered by some critics as the apex of the elder Ophuls’ career. In the meantime, he made a film sympathetic to the 1968 Parisian student riots and, after the re-establishment of pro de Gaulle forces in the French government, he was fired for his radical position.
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