1940: Taking over French Cinema
1940: Taking over French Cinema

1940: Taking over French Cinema

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2019
0h 55m
9.0(4 votes)
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History
TV Movie

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.

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Talweg Production
France Télévisions
Histoire TV

Cast & Crew

15 members
Acting

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

Self (voice)

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain
Writing

Louis-Émile Galey

Self (archive footage)

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Directing

Claude Heymann

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Jean Dréville

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Marcel Carné

Self (archive footage)

Marcel Carné
Production

Raoul Ploquin

Self (voice) (archive footage)

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Henri Calef

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Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Writing

Michel Duran

Self (archive footage)

Michel Duran
Writing

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Self (archive footage)

Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writing

Hans Borgelt

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Danielle Darrieux

Self (archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux
Art

Max Douy

Self (archive footage)

Max Douy
Lighting

Louis Cochet

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Charles Spaak

Self (archive footage)

Charles Spaak

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