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Marcel Ophuls, L.A.-raised documentarian and Oscar winner, dies
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Marcel Ophuls, L.A.-raised documentarian and Oscar winner, dies

Last updated: May 29, 2025 11:48 pm
Editorial Board Published May 29, 2025
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Famend documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls, who, alongside together with his household, fled Nazi Germany as a baby and spent his adolescence in Los Angeles earlier than having a cinematic profession which earned him each an Oscar in addition to condemnation from some quarters, died Saturday in France, his adopted nation. He was 97.

The director’s 1969 masterpiece, “The Sorrow and the Pity,” an intense, four-hour work that made Ophuls’ repute, started as a undertaking for a government-owned French broadcast community. In the end, although, it was banned and didn’t air on tv till a few years later, as a consequence of its searing indictment (or “explosion,” as Ophuls most well-liked to known as it) of the parable of France’s heroic participation within the struggle — a false if standard model of occasions that ignored Vichy collaboration with the German occupiers.

Born in Frankfurt in 1927, Ophuls was the son of movie director Max Ophüls (his father later dropped the umlaut) and Hildegard Wall, a theater actor. When the Nazis got here to energy in 1933, the Ophuls clan left Germany for Paris. Then, when France fell, they settled in Los Angeles in November 1941, the place Max Ophuls would come to take pleasure in a big moviemaking profession (“Letter from an Unknown Woman”).

Residents have fun the liberation of France in Ophuls’ 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity.”

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For younger Marcel — German Jewish, a citizen of each France and america and fluent in three languages —the ethos and panorama of Southern California posed a really completely different and generally alienating expertise.

After graduating from Hollywood Excessive, he was drafted by the U.S. Military and later enrolled at Occidental School in Eagle Rock, however nonetheless discovered assimilation troublesome, revealing to author Studs Terkel in a 1981 interview that, at the same time as a refugee, he was shocked by the bias he noticed towards folks of shade within the divided communities of Los Angeles following Pearl Harbor.

“When I made movies,” he mentioned, “one of the things that kept me from being too self-righteous is my memory of the Japanese kids who were in my class one day, then gone the next.”

Whereas his father Max struggled at first to seek out work in Hollywood, Marcel felt destined, as he usually mentioned, for a profession within the movie trade. As he revealed in his 2013 documentary memoir “Ain’t Misbehavin,” he started his profession as an actor, enjoying, sarcastically, a member of the Hitler Youth in Frank Capra’s 1942 Conflict Division movie “Prelude to War.”

In the end following his father to France in 1950, Ophuls turned to creating nonfiction movies for French tv, after making an attempt his hand in narrative cinema.

“My second film flopped, but it was a very bad film that deserved to flop,” he mentioned frankly, talking about his profession in London in 2004.

His self-deprecating model of humor, tinged with a contact of irony, was usually obvious within the interviews he carried out for a lot of of his movies, confronting former Nazis and collaborators. Alternately, his tone was infused with contempt, sarcasm or real sympathy for his topics who had been victims of brutality unleashed by the Gestapo or secret police of the Vichy regime.

Ophuls gained the Academy Award for documentary characteristic in 1989 for “Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie,” which depicted the crimes of the pinnacle of the Gestapo in Lyon who, after the struggle, escaped French prosecutors with the assistance of U.S. Military intelligence, evading justice and dwelling in South America till he was extradited to France from Bolivia in 1983. Barbie died in jail in 1991.

Ophuls was additionally identified for different documentaries, together with 1976’s “The Memory of Justice,” concerning the legacy of the Nuremberg trials, and 1972’s “A Sense of Loss,” which handled the troubles of Northern Eire.

About his well-known confidence when seated face-to-face with intimidating topics — one interview was with Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect and minister of armaments — Ophuls was characteristically candid and self-effacing.

“He was so fantastically cooperative,” he mentioned of Speer. “He even offered to show me his home movies. It just seemed to me to be part of my job.”

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