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Poster for the film 1940: Taking over French CinemaPoster for the film 1940: Taking over French Cinema

1940: Taking over French Cinema

2019

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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SSSS
Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain

as Self (voice)

LGLG
Louis-Émile Galey

as Self (archive footage)

CHCH
Claude Heymann

as Self (archive footage)

JDJD
Jean Dréville

as Self (archive footage)

MCMC
Marcel Carné

as Self (archive footage)

RPRP
Raoul Ploquin

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

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