1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019)

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Original Title: 1940, main basse sur le cinéma français

Release Date: May 19, 2019

Runtime: 55 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

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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

Jean Dréville

Self (archive footage)

Marcel Carné

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Self (archive footage)

Michel Duran

Self (archive footage)

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Self (archive footage)

Danielle Darrieux

Self (archive footage)

Max Douy

Self (archive footage)

Charles Spaak

Self (archive footage)

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