Marcel Ophüls
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Marcel Ophüls (born November 1, 1927) is a documentary film maker.
He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Max Ophüls. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950.
[edit] Filmography
- Love at Twenty (1962)
- Banana Peel (1963)
- Fire at Will (1965)
- Munich or Peace in our Time (1967)
- The Harvest of My Lai (1970)
- The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la pitié)(1969) - This film marked a turning point in the French debate about the Vichy Regime.
- A Sense of Loss (1972)
- The Memory of Justice (1973-6) On the Nuremberg Trials
- Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1989)
- November Days (1992)
- Veillées d'armes (The Troubles We've Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime) (1994)
Every year, the IDFA, International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, gives an acclaimed filmmaker the chance to screen his or her personal Top 10 favorite films. In 2007, Iranian filmmaker Maziar Bahari selected The Sorrow and the Pity for his top ten classics from the history of documentary.
[edit] Literature
- The sorrow and the pity : a film by Marcel Ophüls, Introduction by Stanley Hoffmann. Filmscript translated by Mireille Johnston. Biographical and appendix material by Mireille Johnston, New York : Berkeley Publishing Corporation, 1975
