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Cinema in totalitarian countries

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Institutions established during the Fascist erain Italy

After 1933 dubbing of Italian films into foreignlanguages forbidden by law; all foreign filmsdistributed in Italy had to be dubbed

Films become a part of the Venice Arts Festivalin 1934

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia started

in 1934 Bianco e nero magazine

Cinecitt studios opened 21.4.1937

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Italian cinema during the Fascist era

ALESSANDRO BLASETTI: 1860 (1934), Vecchia Guardia(1935), Quattro passi fra le nuvole (1942)

MARIO CAMERINI: Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! (1932), Ilsignor Max(1937), Grandi Magazini(1939)

CARMINE GALLONE: Scipio l'Africano (1937)

GOFFREDO ALESSANDRINI: Luciano Serra pilota (1938)

FRANCESCO DE ROBERTIS: Uomini sul fondo(1941)

ROBERTO ROSSELLINI: La nave bianca (1941), Un pilotaritorna (1942), L'uomo della croce (1943)

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German cinema in the 1930s

JOSEF VON STERNBERG: Der blaue Engel(1930) FRITZ LANG: M (1930)

G.W. PABST: Westfront 1918 (1930), Kameradschaft(1931)

LEONTINE SAGAN: Mdchen in Uniform (1931)

VEIT HARLAN:Jud Sss (1940), Der grosse Knig (1942), Kolberg(1945)

FRITZ HIPPLER: Feldzug in Poland(1940), Der ewige Jude (1940)

LENI RIEFENSTAHL: Das blaue Licht(1932) Triumph des Willens(1935), Olympia I-II (1938)

Deutsche Wochenscau newsreel compilations

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Soviet cinema in the 1930s

SERGEI and GRIGORI VASILEV: apajev (1934)

GRIGORI KOZINTSEV & LEONID TRAUBERG Maksim-trilogy(1935-39)

MARK DONSKOI: Gorki-trilogy(1938-40)

VLADIMIR PETROV: Peter the Great I-II (1937-39)

IVAN PYRIEV: Tractor drivers (1939)

GRIGORI ALEXANDROV:Volga - Volga (1938)

SERGEI EISENSTEIN: Que viva Mxico!, Aleksanteri Nevski(1938), Ivan the Terrible I-II (1945, 1945)

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Institutions created during the occupation ofFrance

Comit d'Organisation de l'industrie

Cinmatographique (C.O.I.C.) founded in 1940 underformer UFA producer Rouil Ploquin

Grand Prix de Film D'Art Francais Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinmatographiques

(I.D.H.E.C.) under Marcel L'Herbier

Cinmathque Francaise, founded byHenri Langloistogether with Georges Franju strenghtens its position

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Films and directors during the occupation

CHRISTIAN-JACQUES: La symphonie fantastique (1942) MARCEL PAGNOL: La fille du puisatier (1940) MARCEL CARN: Les visiteurs du soir (1942), Les enfants

du paradis (1945) HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT: Le corbeau (1943) JEAN GRMILLON: Le ciel est a vous (1944)

Other artists working in the industry: Jacques Prvert,

Pierre Laroche, Alexander Trauner, Joseph Kosma,Pierre Fresnay, Arletty

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USA government recommendations for wartime themes in films

Why we fight, the American way

The nature of the enemy, its ideology, goals

and methods The United Nations, i.e. USA's allies

Production front: producing for the victory

Home front: the responsibilities of the civilians

The armed forces, USA and allies

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War time films in the USADepictions of Nazis

HERMAN SHUMLIN: Watch on the Rhine (1943) FRITZ LANG: Hangmen also Die! (1943), Ministry of Fear(1944) ALFRED HITCHCOCK: Lifeboat(1944)Films in support of the Soviet Union

MICHAEL CURTIZ: Mission to Moscow(1943) LEWIS MILESTONE: North Star/Armored Attack (1943)Realistic depictions of the war MILESTONE: The Purple Heart(1944),A Walk in the Sun (1945) RAOUL WALSH: Objective, Burma! JOHN FORD: They Were Expendable (1945)

Home front WILLIAM WYLER: Mrs Minniver(1942)