Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophuls (German: [ˈɔfʏls]; born 1 November 1927) was a German-French documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films The Sorrow and the Pity and Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie. Ophuls was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of... Read full bio →
Veillées d'armes
We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists in many interviews of mostly French and American journalists and reporters of television or newspapers.
Hôtel Terminus
A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.
The Memory of Justice
This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam.
Faites vos jeux, mesdames
A famous American secret service agent tries to rescue a German 17 year old prodigy scientist who has been captured by the Russians.
Peau de banane
The French comedy-drama of Marcel Ophuls, which came to the Paris yesterday.