This Second World War film is the greatest documentary ever made

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French producers refused to screen it after commissioning it. But this masterpiece could be the ultimate WW2 documentary

A French documentary leaves Simon Heffer awe-struck, and a nation’s self-serving myths in ruins Years ago, I was about to switch off the television when the next programme started; a documentary study of occupied France during the Second World War, shot in black and white. Four and a half hours later, it finished, leaving me astonished, in awe and convinced that the film I had just seen, Marcel Ophuls’s Le chagrin et la pitié , was a masterpiece.

 

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