1940: Taking over French Cinema

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.

Country:

France

Genre:

Documentary,

History,

TV Movie

Duration:

55 minutes

Year:

2019

Director:

Pierre-Henri Gibert

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Company:

Talweg Production,

France Télévisions,

Histoire TV

Cast:

Self (voice)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Crew:

Director

Book

Writer

Producer

Original Music Composer