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From 1940 to 1944, the German-owned Continental Films dominated the French film landscape, producing thirty features throughout the Nazi occupation. Charged with producing entertaining and profitable films rather than propaganda, producer Alfred Greven employed some of the greatest French actors and most prestigious directors of the time, including Maurice Tourneur, Henri Decoin, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Marcel Carné.Christine Leteux has produced the most authoritative and complete history of the company and its impact on the French film industry—both during the war and after. She examines not only the formation and management of Continental Films but also the personalities involved, the fraught and often deadly political circumstances of the period, the critical reception of the films, and many of the more notorious and controversial events.As Bertrand Tavernier explains in his foreword, Leteux overturns many of the preconceptions and clichés that have come to be associated with Continental Films. Published to rave reviews in French and translated by the author into English, this work shatters expectations and will reinvigorate study of a lesser-known but significant period of French film history.

Motion picture industry --- Fascism and motion pictures --- History --- History --- Continental films --- History. --- France --- History

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A partir des témoignages recueillis auprès d'Abel Gance et des acteurs, ainsi que des recherches sur des documents d'archives, cette étude, réalisée par un spécialiste du cinéma muet qui a reconstitué la version originale de ce film sorti triomphalement en 1927, en restitue l'histoire et le projet artistique.

Motion pictures --- Silent films --- Films muets --- History --- Gance, Abel --- Napoléon (Motion picture) --- Napoléon (film) --- Napoléon (Motion picture) --- Napoléon (film) --- Napoléon --- History. --- Gance, Abel. --- Napoleon --- In motion pictures. --- Napoléon (Motion picture : 1927)