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1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019)

ALL 05/19/2019 (fr) Documentary, History, TV Movie 55 Min
  • Release
    05/19/2019
  • Production
    Talweg Production, France Télévisions, Histoire TV
  • Rotten tomato
    90%
  • Original title
    1940, main basse sur le cinéma français
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  2. Story

  4. Vincent Gazaigne

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

    Self (voice)

  2. Louis-Émile Galey

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Claude Heymann

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Jean Dréville

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Marcel Carné

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Raoul Ploquin

    Self (voice) (archive footage)

  7. Henri Calef

    Self (archive footage)

  8. Jean-Paul Le Chanois

    Self (archive footage)

  9. Michel Duran

    Self (archive footage)

  10. Henri-Georges Clouzot

    Self (archive footage)

  11. Hans Borgelt

    Self (archive footage)

  12. Danielle Darrieux

    Self (archive footage)

  13. Max Douy

    Self (archive footage)

  14. Louis Cochet

    Self (archive footage)

  15. Charles Spaak

    Self (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 15 , Crews : 14

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1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019) 55 Min

ALL 05/19/2019 (fr)
Documentary, History, TV Movie
  • Release 05/19/2019
  • Production
    Talweg Production, France Télévisions, Histoire TV
  • Original title 1940, main basse sur le cinéma français
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Pierre-Henri Gibert

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Pierre-Henri Gibert, Florence Bénichou

    Editor

  4. Vincent Gazaigne

    Producer



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