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1940: Taking over French Cinema

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2019-05-190h 55m

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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.

Directors
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Writters
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Editors
Pierre-Henri Gibert, Pierre-Henri Gibert

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  1. Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

    Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

    Self (voice)

  2. Louis-Émile Galey

    Louis-Émile Galey

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Claude Heymann

    Claude Heymann

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Jean Dréville

    Jean Dréville

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Marcel Carné

    Marcel Carné

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Raoul Ploquin

    Raoul Ploquin

    Self (voice) (archive footage)

  7. Henri Calef

    Henri Calef

    Self (archive footage)

  8. Jean-Paul Le Chanois

    Jean-Paul Le Chanois

    Self (archive footage)

  9. Michel Duran

    Michel Duran

    Self (archive footage)

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    Status
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    Original Language
    French
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    Keywords
    francebased on novel or bookworld war iigerman occupationantisemitism1940soccupied france (1940-44)film industrydocumentaryhistorical documentary