The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

Louis Grave: Self, Yronde farmer, Résistance Fighter

Quotes 

• Self - Resistance Fighter : I was a Socialist. I'm still a Socialist today. And I'm proud of it. Although the party has a few people which really should be - they're people like me, who are getting old. Why get 80-year-old people to govern our country? We should put them out to pasture.

• Self - Resistance Fighter : The Resistance in Auvergne began here. The night the first weapons arrived, we met in this very cellar. And we sang the 'Internationale'. We weren't Communists, but as Pétain sang the 'Marseillaise', we had to sing the 'Internationale'.

• Self - Resistance Fighter : I was designated to go bring them some soup. They were close to the movie theater. There was a movie theater, a brothel and everything in Buchenwald. It's the truth. I brought them this soup, and they fell upon it, all 50,000 of them literally fell upon this soup, spilling it everywhere. They were down on their knees in the mud. There must have been at least 8 inches of mud on the ground. Well, they ate out of the mud. And four days later, they were all gunned down. That was Buchenwald.

• Interviewer : People say that some peasants got rich during the war.

  Self - Resistance Fighter : There are some, that's for sure. Maybe it would have been better to get rich on the black market. Then I'd be rich and everyone would like me. But I was a resistant so they think I'm dumb.

• Interviewer : Do you think that having been in the Resistance gives you a good or bad reputation in the minds of others?

  Self - Resistance Fighter : I think it has always given us a bad reputation, because when we were active, they called us terrorists, yes, bandits. Many people still believe this.

  Alexis Grave, Resistance Fighter : Some even called us profiteers.

• Self - Resistance Fighter : There were some Germans who weren't Nazis in their heart. But those Germans were in the concentration camps.