The sorrow and the pity chronicle of a French city under the Occupation = La chagrin et la pitiāe : chronique d'une ville franšcaise sous l'occupation / [videorecording] : Chronicle of a French city under the Occupation Chagrin et la pitiāe Chronique d'une ville franšcaise sous l'occupation Productions Tāelāevision Rencontre S.A. ; director, Marcel Ophuls ; producers, Andrāe Harris, Alain de Sedouy. - [Harrington Park, NJ] : Chatsworth, CA : Milestone Film & Video ; Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, 2000, c1969. - 2 videodiscs (251 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. - Milestone collection .

Title from container. Videodisc release of the 1969 motion picture. On container: "Woody Allen presents."

Part 1. The collapse -- part 2. The choice.

Photography, Andrāe Gazut, Jčurgen Thieme. Photography, Andrāe Gazut, Jčurgen Thieme.

Featuring Pierre Mendįes-France, Sir Anthony Eden, Claude Levy, Denis Rake, Alexis and Louis Grave and Maurice Chevalier.

Through interviews with participants and newsreel footage, examines the occupation of France by the Germans during World War II as it occurred in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. Concentrates on the themes of collaboration and resistance.


DVD ; Dolby digital ; mono.


French with English subtitles.

014381952629

ID9526MLSDVD Image Entertainment


World War, 1939-1945--France--Clermont-Ferrand.
World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France.
World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
Documentary films.
Historical films.


France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
Clermont-Ferrand (France)--History.

CM DVD 00859

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