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    1940: Taking over French Cinema

    1940: Taking over French Cinema

    2019

    55:58

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    1940: Taking over French Cinema

    Genre

    Documentary
    History
    TV Movie

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Pierre-Henri Gibert

    Writers

    Christine Leteux, Pierre-Henri Gibert,

    Stars

    Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Louis-Émile Galey, Claude Heymann, Jean Dréville, Marcel Carné,