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1940: Taking over French Cinema

05/19/2019

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0hr 55min

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Documentary

,History

,TV Movie

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

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

    Director

  • Pierre-Henri Gibert

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Talweg Production
  • France Télévisions
  • Histoire TV

    Production Countries

  • France

LANGUAGES

  • French
  • German

Cast

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

Self (voice)

Danielle Darrieux

Self (archive footage)

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