Marcel Ophuls, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who forced France to face its WWII past, is dead at 97
The German-born filmmaker, who was the son of legendary filmmaker Max Ophuls, died Saturday at his home in southwest France of natural causes, his grandson Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert told The Hollywood Reporter.
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