Overview

• Marcel Ophuls died peacefully on May 24 at his home in southwest France at age 97.
• His 1969 documentary The Sorrow and the Pity unveiled France’s collaboration with Nazi Germany, challenging the postwar national narrative.
• French television banned the film for over a decade before it finally aired in 1981.
• Ophuls won an Academy Award for Hotel Terminus (1988) and later directed documentaries on Northern Ireland, Bosnia and the fall of East Germany.
• At the time of his passing, he was producing a new film examining Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.