German-born filmmaker Marcel Ophuls is dead. His grandson, Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert, said he died of natural causes Saturday at his southwestern French home after watching a favorite film of his with his family. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1972 for the documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity”, a two-part, four-and-a-half-hour, black-and-white production debunking the myth that France resisted Nazi occupation during World War II. That myth had been constructed by French President Charles De Gaulle at the end of the war, and the film’s debunking of it proved so controversial in that nation that it was banned from being presented on French television until 1981. Keeping with the theme of Nazism in his filmmaking, he went on to make “Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie”, a portrait of the Nazi war criminal that won the 1988 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Marcel Ophuls was 97 years old.
Jesse Coffey
German-born filmmaker Marcel Ophuls is dead. His grandson, Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert, said he died of natural causes Saturday at his southwestern French home after watching a favorite film of his with his family. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1972 for the documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity”, a two-part, four-and-a-half-hour, black-and-white production debunking the myth that France resisted Nazi occupation during World War II. That myth had been constructed by French President Charles De Gaulle at the end of the war, and the film’s debunking of it proved so controversial in that nation that it was banned from being presented on French television until 1981. Keeping with the theme of Nazism in his filmmaking, he went on to make “Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie”, a portrait of the Nazi war criminal that won the 1988 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Marcel Ophuls was 97 years old.
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