1940: Taking over French Cinema

1940: Taking over French Cinema by Pierre-Henri Gibert

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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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Cast

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain as Self (voice)

Louis-Émile Galey

Louis-Émile Galey as Self (archive footage)

Claude Heymann

Claude Heymann as Self (archive footage)

Jean Dréville

Jean Dréville as Self (archive footage)

Marcel Carné

Marcel Carné as Self (archive footage)

Raoul Ploquin

Raoul Ploquin as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Henri Calef

Henri Calef as Self (archive footage)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Jean-Paul Le Chanois as Self (archive footage)

Michel Duran

Michel Duran as Self (archive footage)

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Henri-Georges Clouzot as Self (archive footage)

Hans Borgelt

Hans Borgelt as Self (archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux

Danielle Darrieux as Self (archive footage)

Max Douy

Max Douy as Self (archive footage)

Louis Cochet

Louis Cochet as Self (archive footage)

Charles Spaak

Charles Spaak as Self (archive footage)

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