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1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019)

9.00h 55mDocumentary • History • TV Movie
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Synopsis

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.

Movie Information

Director
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Writers
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Release Year
2019
Runtime
55 minutes
Genre
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Language
FR
Country
France
Status
Released
Rating
9.0 / 10 (4 votes)

Top Cast

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain — cast portrait as Self (voice)
Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain
Self (voice)
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Louis-Émile Galey
Self (archive footage)
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Claude Heymann
Self (archive footage)
Jean Dréville — cast portrait as Self (archive footage)
Jean Dréville
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Carné — cast portrait as Self (archive footage)
Marcel Carné
Self (archive footage)
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Raoul Ploquin
Self (voice) (archive footage)
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Henri Calef
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois — cast portrait as Self (archive footage)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Self (archive footage)

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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.

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