because it lasts four and a half hours.

它长达四个半小时
It was a documentary

是马克斯·奥菲尔斯
made for French television by Max ophuls.

为法国电视台拍的一部纪录片
It was never shown

但影片直到1981年
on French television until 1981. Why?

才在法国电视上播出为什么
Because it was a documentary in which collaborators--

因为这部片子讲述了通敌者的故事
there's sort of a local notable called Christian De la Maziere,

其中有个当地的乡绅基督徒马迪埃
who describes in his smoking, his smoking,

他抽着烟
in his fancy jacket in the chateau,

穿着时髦夹克在庄园中
why he fought alongside the Nazis

他为什么参加党卫军
on the Eastern Front in the Waffen SS.

在东线和纳粹并肩战斗
It's about collaboration and resistance,

这里有助纣为虐也有抵抗到底