1940: Taking over French Cinema

1940: Taking over French Cinema

2019
55m
9.0

9.0/10

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Documentary 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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Production Information

Production Companies
Talweg Production France Télévisions Histoire TV
Production Countries
France
Spoken Languages
French German

Keywords

france based on novel or book world war ii german occupation antisemitism 1940s occupied france (1940-44) film industry documentary historical documentary

Quick Facts

Original Title 1940, main basse sur le cinéma français
Release Date May 19, 2019
Status Released
Language FR
IMDb ID tt10399558
Website Visit Site

Cast

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain
Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

Self (voice)

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)

Key Crew

Pierre-Henri Gibert
Writer
Vincent Gazaigne
Producer
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Director