1940 Taking over French Cinema

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 Goebbelss 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