Acclaimed French director Marcel Ophuls, renowned for his documentary, “The Sorrow and the Pity,” which revealed the Vichy regime’s collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II, has died at the age of 97.

The Oscar-winner’s grandson, Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert, confirmed Monday that Marcel Ophuls “died peacefully” Saturday, The Guardian reported. 

Ophuls was born in Frankfurt in 1927 to actor Hilde Wall and prominent director Max Ophuls. After the Nazis took control of Germany in 1933, his family escaped to France. However, with the Nazi invasion of France, they were forced to flee again, this time through Spain before settling in the United States in 1941.

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