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1940: Taking over French Cinema
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Title: 1940: Taking over French Cinema

Release Date: 19 May 2019

Runtime: 55m

Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie

Director: Talweg Production, France Télévisions, Histoire TV

Production Companies: Talweg Production, France Télévisions, Histoire TV

Overview: 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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Average Vote: 9 (4 votes)

Cast

  • Self (voice): Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain
  • Self (archive footage): Louis-Émile Galey
  • Self (archive footage): Claude Heymann
  • Self (archive footage): Jean Dréville
  • Self (archive footage): Marcel Carné
  • Self (voice) (archive footage): Raoul Ploquin
  • Self (archive footage): Henri Calef
  • Self (archive footage): Jean-Paul Le Chanois
  • Self (archive footage): Michel Duran
  • Self (archive footage): Henri-Georges Clouzot
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