1940: Taking over French Cinema
9.0
2019
55m
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
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.
Key Crew
Director
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Producers
Vincent Gazaigne
Writers
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Music
Arnaud Guillemant
Cast (15)
Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain
Self (voice)
Louis-Émile Galey
