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1940: Taking over French Cinema

19 May 2019
  • France
55 mins
9
4 votes
  • Documentary
  • History
  • TV Movie
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Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge. During the occupation, under Joseph Goebbels’s orders, Greven hires the best artists and technicians of French cinema to produce successful, highly entertaining films, which are also strategically devoid of propaganda. Simultaneously, he takes advantage of the confiscation of Jewish property to purchase film theaters, studios and laboratories, in order to control the whole production line. His goal: to create a European Hollywood. Among the thirty feature films thus produced under the auspices of Continental, several are, to this day, considered classics of French cinema.
  • Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

    as Self (voice)
  • Louis-Émile Galey

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Claude Heymann

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Jean Dréville

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Marcel Carné

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Raoul Ploquin

    as Self (voice) (archive footage)
  • Henri Calef

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Jean-Paul Le Chanois

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Michel Duran

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Henri-Georges Clouzot

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Hans Borgelt

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Danielle Darrieux

    as Self (archive footage)

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