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.
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Writer, Director
Sarah-Jane Sauvegrain
Self (voice)
Louis-Émile Galey
Self (archive footage)
Claude Heymann
Self (archive footage)
Jean Dréville
Self (archive footage)
Marcel Carné
Self (archive footage)
Raoul Ploquin
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Henri Calef
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Self (archive footage)
Michel Duran
Self (archive footage)
Shoah82%
Nuit et Brouillard82%
Padomju stāsts73%
Audrey71%
And the Oscar Goes To...68%
Le Voyage extraordinaire77%
The Making of Star Wars70%
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound69%
4 Little Girls72%
Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis72%
WWII From Space74%
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside77%
Kubrick by Kubrick75%
The Atomic Cafe73%
The Age of Stupid65%
Lumière ! L'aventure commence79%
Alone in the Wilderness79%
They Shall Not Grow Old77%
Making The Witcher71%
Ronaldo69%
