1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019)
1940, main basse sur le cinéma français
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.
What is 1940: Taking over French Cinema about?
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. 1940: Taking over French Cinema is a Documentary, History, TV Movie movie, released on 2019-05-19, runtime 55 minutes.
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Directed by
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Cast
- Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain as Self (voice)
- Louis-Émile Galey as Self (archive footage)
- Claude Heymann as Self (archive footage)
- Jean Dréville as Self (archive footage)
- Marcel Carné as Self (archive footage)
- Raoul Ploquin as Self (voice) (archive footage)
- Henri Calef as Self (archive footage)
- Jean-Paul Le Chanois as Self (archive footage)
- Michel Duran as Self (archive footage)
- Henri-Georges Clouzot as Self (archive footage)
- Hans Borgelt as Self (archive footage)
- Danielle Darrieux as Self (archive footage)
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