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Name: 1940: Taking over French Cinema
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 2019-05-19
Duration: 55 min
Rating: 9.0
Cast: Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain, Louis-Émile Galey, Claude Heymann, Jean Dréville, Marcel Carné

1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019) is not currently listed on any UK streaming, rental, or purchase service. Last verified on 6 August 2026 by ScreenSearch.

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.

Film
2019
55 min
★ 9.0/10 TMDB
Documentary
History
TV Movie

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DirectorPierre-Henri Gibert

WriterPierre-Henri Gibert

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