1940: Taking over French Cinema

1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019)

Released: 2019-05-19 Duration: 55min
Rating 9.0

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.

Production Companies

Talweg Production
Talweg Production
France Télévisions
France Télévisions
Histoire TV
Histoire TV

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language fr
Popularity 1.435

Directed By

Pierre-Henri Gibert

Crew

Sound Mixer
Baptiste Guichot
Graphic Designer
Yoann Crez
Sound Editor
Baptiste Guichot
Assistant Editor
Yoann Crez
Art Designer
Romain Egea
Production Manager
Julie Meigniez
Original Music Composer
Arnaud Guillemant
Color Grading
Jean-Marie Frémont

TOP CAST

Louis-Émile Galey
Louis-Émile Galey

Self (archive footage)

Claude Heymann
Claude Heymann

Self (archive footage)

Jean Dréville
Jean Dréville

Self (archive footage)

Marcel Carné
Marcel Carné

Self (archive footage)

Raoul Ploquin
Raoul Ploquin

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Henri Calef
Henri Calef

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Self (archive footage)

Michel Duran
Michel Duran

Self (archive footage)

Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot

Self (archive footage)

Hans Borgelt
Hans Borgelt

Self (archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Darrieux

Self (archive footage)

Max Douy
Max Douy

Self (archive footage)

Louis Cochet
Louis Cochet

Self (archive footage)

Charles Spaak
Charles Spaak

Self (archive footage)

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