Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français

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The Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français was a film company that was founded in 1944 and existed until 1980.

history

The Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français, or CGCF for short, was a company founded on the initiative of the Comité de libération du cinema français (CLCF) and the Parti communiste français (PCF). It was conceived as a cooperative and with the ambition to produce and distribute economically successful but above all progressive films.

Among the founders were the film director and screenwriter Louis Daquin and the eminent cameraman Henri Alekan . Louis Daquin took the chair and brought together many people from the film, most of whom had belonged to the Resistance . Although the CGCF was originally intended for a wide range of films, it quickly specialized in special productions, short films and documentary feature films, such as René Cléments film Schienenschlacht (1946), which was about the fight of the French railroaders against German troop trains during the time of the Resistance to the German occupying powerreported, and it was a nice success for the CGCF. Jean Grémillon's 1946 film June 6th at Dawn , which deals with Operation Overlord , also falls into this genre . The semi-documentary film Au cœur de l'orage (In the Heart of the Storm) by Jean-Paul Le Chanois , produced in 1948, also takes up the topic, as it focuses on the resistance fighters of Vercors . In the period that followed, a number of feature films were made alongside many short films.

For the documentary short film 1848 , the company was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary Short Film in 1950 .

At the end of the 1950s, the CGCF's film activity began to decline, its last listed film was from 1964. Although it continued to exist in the 1970s, it remained inactive. In 1980 the decision was made to wind up the company.

Filmography

  • 1945: June 6th, at dawn (Le 6 juin à l'aube)
  • 1946: La Bataille du rail
  • 1947: Voyage Surprise
  • 1947: La Rose et le Réséda
  • 1948: Au cœur de l'orage
  • 1948: Parade du rire
  • 1949: If you skip school (L'École buissonnière)
  • 1950: 1848 (La Révolution de 1848)
  • 1950: Un cirque passe
  • 1950: Maître après Dieu
  • 1951: Ça c'est du cinéma
  • 1952: Trois femmes
  • 1952: marriage brokerage (Agence matrimoniale)
  • 1952: Je sème à tout vent
  • 1953: L'Œil en coulisses
  • 1953: Jour de marché
  • 1953: Chemins d'avril
  • 1957: Les Fanatiques
  • 1958: The Disappointed (Le Beau Serge)
  • 1958: Sunday friends (Les Copains du dimanche)
  • 1963: La Grande Grève des mineurs
  • 1964: Naissance d'une cité, Gennevilliers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français at cinearchives.org (French)
  2. ^ Pauline Gallinari: Le Parti communiste français, la culture et le cinéma à l'heure de la guerre froide (1947–1953)
    at univ-paris8.fr (French)