The Shoah Film That Changed Everything: The groundbreaking 'The Sorrow and the Pity,' which reinvented the documentary genre is back in New York after a 20-year absence.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: May 12, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

The Shoah Film That Changed Everything: The groundbreaking `The Sorrow and the Pity,' which reinvented the documentary genre is back in New York after a 20-year absence.

GEORGE ROBINSON

SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH WEEK

Calling Marcel Ophuls' 1971 film "The Sorrow and the Pity" a "talking-heads documentary" is like calling Fusaichi Pegasus, who won last week's Kentucky Derby in a smashing performance, a "nice horsey."

With his majestic investigation of the way one French town reacted to the German Occupation, Ophuls reinvented the documentary genre, retooling it to deal with issues of greater weight ...

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