1940: Taking over French Cinema

1940: Taking over French Cinema was released on May 19, 2019.

1940: Taking over French Cinema was directed by Pierre-Henri Gibert.

1940: Taking over French Cinema has a runtime of 55m.

1940: Taking over French Cinema was produced by Vincent Gazaigne.

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.

The key characters in 1940: Taking over French Cinema are Self (voice) (Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain), Self (archive footage) (Louis-Émile Galey), Self (archive footage) (Claude Heymann).

1940: Taking over French Cinema is a Documentary, History, TV Movie film.