1940: Taking over French Cinema(2019)

1940: Taking over French Cinema Synopsis

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.

1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019) is a documentary, history and tv movie film directed by Pierre-Henri Gibert, released on May 19, 2019 with a runtime of 55m. It stars Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Louis-Émile Galey, Claude Heymann and Jean Dréville. Viewers rate it 9.0 out of 10 across 4 ratings.