#SUBTLE SUBVERSION PROFESSIONAL#
What is certain about Greven is that he was a professional filmmaker with plenty of money at his disposal and the wish to make good films while conforming to his masters' dictates. I wanted to show how people saw him, not what we have learned about him since." "I don't really know who Alfred Greven was and neither did people at the time. When they faced an event or a person their understanding was fragmentary and the film tries not to give more information than those people had. "I wanted the camera style to have the instability that people had in their heads, to be as ignorant of what was coming next as the characters were.
"I didn't want a linear narrative," Tavernier says. An epic about small acts, it runs nearly three hours and at times is as confused and incoherent as life was then. Among the exceptions were some of the 30 made by Continental, which is odd because Continental, with offices at the corner of the Champs-Elysees and rue Washington, was entirely German-run and financed and was headed by Alfred Greven, a former World War I pilot and friend of Hermann Goering.įilmmaking at Continental is the subject of Bertrand Tavernier's film "Laisser-passer," which has opened at 20 Paris cinemas. I think they'll be content with this.ĭuring the German occupation, 220 films were made in France, most of them following Goebbels's orders. I have given very clear instructions that the French only produce films that are lightweight, empty and, if possible, stupid.
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