Marcel Ophüls

Marcel Ophuls, in both his four-hour films about the Second World War and a major war criminal, The Sorrow And The Pity and Hotel Terminus, his interviewees have a clear part to play in the story. Ophuls frames his argument with each of them to get the most economic story from their lips detailing from some their humanity or heroism and from others, their complicity in the barbarism of the Nazi ideology. A master.