The Oscar-winning director Marcel Ophüls has died, his family announces.
Ophüls, born in Germany and an American citizen, was primarily active in France and became a big name in documentary film with his film "Occupied Country" in 1969.
The nearly five-hour-long film mapped out how the French people's self-image as resistance fighters during World War II did not entirely match reality, and the film was banned on French TV for over a decade.
"Occupied Country" was nominated for an Oscar, but Ophüls had to wait until 1989 before he received a statuette for "Hotel Terminus", a portrait of the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie.
Marcel Ophüls, son of the German director Max Ophüls, became 97 years old.
