Released:
2019-05-19

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.

Director:
Pierre-Henri Gibert

Runtime:
0h 55min

Genre:
Documentary, History, TV Movie

• Cast:
• 
  Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain
  as
  Self (voice)
• 
  Louis-Émile Galey
  as
  Self (archive footage)
• 
  Claude Heymann
  as
  Self (archive footage)
• 
  Jean Dréville
  as
  Self (archive footage)
• 
  Marcel Carné
  as
  Self (archive footage)