frfilmtv1-4, Exercise 1: Control and judgement under the Occupation

Model answer:

Three ways (any three): a state body created to organise the industry and license its workers; exclusion of Jewish film professionals, some of whom had to leave or hide; the involvement of a German-owned production company in Paris and German oversight; and censorship of scripts and films, with British and American films banned.

Les Enfants du paradis was shot in the later war years and released in 1945, and is generally seen as a great film made under difficult conditions, though its star Arletty was punished after the war for a relationship with a German officer (check). Le Corbeau (1943) was made by the German-owned company and criticised after the war as an attack on French society, and Clouzot was banned for a time. Both show how hard it was to separate art, circumstance and politics.

Check the details in a film reference.