Overview

• Ophuls died peacefully at his home in southern France on May 24 at age 97.
• His 1969 film 'The Sorrow and the Pity' challenged myths of widespread French resistance and was banned from French television until 1981.
• He won an Academy Award for 'Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie' in 1988 and earned an Oscar nomination for 'The Sorrow and the Pity.'
• Ophuls’s work combined extensive interviews and archival footage to probe themes of collaboration, resistance and moral ambiguity during conflict.
• He was working on 'Unpleasant Truths,' a documentary about Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, at the time of his death.