The Sorrow and the Pity
: Josh Marshall tells us that The Sorrow and the Pity, the landmark film about the Nazi occupation of France that has been impossible find, is finally out on DVD.
2 responses to “The Sorrow and the Pity”
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Boy, those guys in the French Resistance were really brave, you know, having to listen to Maurice Chevalier sing so much.
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Boy, if there’s anything to confirm in one’s mind the Dominique de Villepin version of France, it’s *Sorrow and the Pity*. In it, you learn, for example:
– almost as many French fought for the Germans, as fought in the Resistance.
– according to one Resistance fighter, not only was he *not* thanked by his compatriots for, you know, resisting a fascist occupation, but the general reaction he got afterward was… resentment.
– if you wanna hear bitter people, I mean *really* bitter people, listen to a French Jewish family whose neighbors put them on the train.
– after they’d shuffled all their Jews and other undesirables into the boxcarts, and accepted the Petain regime with little objection, and German soldiers were strolling about the city with little discomfort, Paris became, once again, a *swinging* town with a great night life. “People don’t like to admit it,” a French businessman with a touch of conscience, “but it really was.”
So yeah, it’s a worthwhile movie to watch.
