Marcel Ophuls, the Oscar-winning director of the 1969 documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, which questioned the idea of widespread French resistance during WWII, has died.

He passed away on May 24 from natural causes at his home in the South of France, according to the Associated Press.

“He had been feeling unwell about three days before,” his grandson Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert told Deadline on May 26. “My father spent the last day with him, and they watched Ernst Lubitsch’sTo Be or Not to Be, then he retired to bed. The next day, they were going to watch his favorite Lubitsch, Heaven Can Wait. Unfortunately, it didn’t come to that.”

Seyfert added that his grandfather died peacefully in his sleep. Ophuls was 97.

Born on November 1, 1927, in Frankfurt, Germany, Ophuls was the son of film

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