Marcel Ophuls, filmmaker who forced France to face wartime past, dies aged 97

Director Marcel Ophuls with the Berlinale Camera award in 2015 (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary The Sorrow And The Pity shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis during the Second World War, has died aged 97.

The German-born filmmaker, who was the son of legendary filmmaker Max Ophuls, died on Saturday at his home in southwest France of natural causes, his grandson Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert told The Hollywood Reporter.