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1940: Taking over French Cinema

2019
9| 0h55m| en| History, Documentary
Storyline

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.

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  • 1940: Taking over French Cinema Cast
Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain as Self (voice)
Marcel Carné as Self (archive footage)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois as Self (archive footage)
Henri-Georges Clouzot as Self (archive footage)
Danielle Darrieux as Self (archive footage)
Max Douy as Self (archive footage)
Charles Spaak as Self (archive footage)