After 1968 this myth was challenged by a younger generation. One striking example was the famous documentary The Sorrow and the Pity by Marcel Ophuls which came out in 1969. While it is not quite true, as has often been claimed, that the film suddenly replaced the image of France as a nation of resisters with that of France as a nation of collaborators, it did offer an unprecedentedly dark picture of the Occupation in which there were a few heroes, a few villains and a lot of cowardly attentistes. In the four hours of the film de Gaulle was hardly mentioned. The film was iconoclastic enough
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