1940: Taking over French Cinema [724404] Released: 2019-05-19 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 55 mins Popularity: 0.5852 Vote Average: 9 Vote Count: 4 Overview: 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. Cast [15] Sarah-Jane SauvegrainSelf Louis-Émile GaleySelf Claude HeymannSelf Jean DrévilleSelf Marcel CarnéSelf Raoul PloquinSelf Henri CalefSelf Jean-Paul Le ChanoisSelf Michel DuranSelf Henri-Georges ClouzotSelf Hans BorgeltSelf Danielle DarrieuxSelf Max DouySelf Louis CochetSelf Charles SpaakSelf Hompage: http://talwegproduction.com/en/films/1940-taking-over-french-cinema/ Trailers