Marcel Ophuls is a German-French documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films The Sorrow and the Pity and Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.
10 Facts About Marcel Ophuls
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Marcel Ophuls's family left Germany in 1933 following the coming to power of the Nazi Party and settled in Paris, France.
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Marcel Ophuls attended Hollywood High School, then Occidental College, Los Angeles.
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Marcel Ophuls spent a brief period serving in a US Army theatrical unit in Japan in 1946, then studied at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Marcel Ophuls became a naturalized citizen of France in 1938, and of the United States in 1950.
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Marcel Ophuls then embarked on his examination of France under Nazi occupation, The Sorrow and the Pity.
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Legal wrangles left him disappointed and financially broke, and Marcel Ophuls turned to university lecturing.
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At the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015 Marcel Ophuls received the Berlinale Camera award for his life work.
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In 2014, Marcel Ophuls began crowd-sourcing funds for his new film Unpleasant Truths, about the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, to be co-directed with Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan.
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Ophuls senior removed the umlaut when he took French citizenship, and Marcel has adopted the same spelling.