1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019)
55m
Running Time
May 19, 2019Release Date

1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019)
55m
Running Time
May 19, 2019Release Date
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Plot.
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 & Crew.

Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain
Self (voice)

Louis-Émile Galey
Self (archive footage)

Claude Heymann
Self (archive footage)

Jean Dréville
Self (archive footage)

Marcel Carné
Self (archive footage)

Raoul Ploquin
Self (voice) (archive footage)

Henri Calef
Self (archive footage)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Self (archive footage)

Michel Duran
Self (archive footage)

Henri-Georges Clouzot
Self (archive footage)

Hans Borgelt
Self (archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux
Self (archive footage)

Max Douy
Self (archive footage)

Louis Cochet
Self (archive footage)

Charles Spaak
Self (archive footage)

Christine Leteux
Book

Arnaud Guillemant
Original Music Composer

Julie Meigniez
Production Manager

Baptiste Guichot
Sound Editor / Sound Mixer

Yoann Crez
Assistant Editor / Graphic Designer

Pierre-Henri Gibert
Editor / Writer / Director

Florence Bénichou
Editor

Romain Egea
Art Designer

Vincent Gazaigne
Producer
Media.



Details.
Release DateMay 19, 2019
Original Name1940, main basse sur le cinéma français
StatusReleased
Running Time55m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
world war ii
france
german occupation
1940s
film industry
based on novel or book
occupied france
historical documentary
documental
anti semitism
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