Marcel Ophuls, umuyobozi w’amafilime wavukiye mu Budage, wakoze filime y’amateka ikomeye yitwa “The Sorrow and the Pity” yashegeshe igitekerezo cy’uko Abafaransa benshi barwanyije Abanazi mu gihe cy’intambara ya kabiri y’isi yose, yapfiriye mu Bufaransa mu mpera z’icyumweru gishize. Yari afite imyaka 97.
Urupfu rwe rwatangajwe n’umwuzukuru we, Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert, ariko ntiyatanze ibisobanuro birambuye.
Bwana Ophuls yari amaze gukora amafilime make y’inkuru z’imigani mbere y’uko amenyekana cyane mu 1969, ubwo yasohoraga “The Sorrow and the Pity”, filime y’iminota irenga 270 yerekanaga amateka yo mu ntambara i Clermont-Ferrand, umujyi w’inganda uri hafi y’ijisho ry’igihugu cy’u Bufaransa. Mu buryo butarimo amarangamutima kandi bucukumbuye, yagiranye ibiganiro n’abacuruzi bato, abahinzi, abacuruzi bakomeye, abarimu n’abavoka — bamwe bafatanyije n’Abanazi n’ubutegetsi bwa Vichy, abandi barwanya iryo fatirahamwe — ariko muri rusange benshi bari baracecekeye ibikorwa byo gutwara Abayahudi n’abo barwanyaga Abanazi.
Igihe iyo filime yerekanywe bwa mbere mu ncinema za Paris, yakiriwe n’amarira, uburakari n’igitangaza. Yakuyeho igitekerezo cyari cyarashimangiwe na Charles de Gaulle ubwo yagarukaga mu Bufaransa ari kumwe n’ingabo z’Abanyamuryango mu 1944, cyavugaga ko Abafaransa benshi bari bashyigikiye cyangwa bari ibanga ku rugamba rwo kurwanya Abanazi.