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Marcel Ophüls
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: November 21, 1927 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany Biography:German director Marcel Ophuls, the son of famed director Max Ophuls, has continued his father's legacy of films centering on oppression and prejudice. Recognized for his hard-hitting documentaries, Ophuls is best known for his internationally-acclaimed, award-winning film "The Sorrow and the Pity" (1970), a provocative French film that chronicled events in Nazi occupied France. It also examined the ways in which some locals in the town of Clemont-Ferrand collaborated with the Germans at that time, which led it to be banned from French TV until 1981, as it was considered too disturbing. The German born Ophuls came to the U.S. with his exiled father where he attended high school in Hollywood. He then went on to study at Occidental College, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; and at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1951, while still in France, he became an assistant for filmmakers "Julien... Full Biography
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