The Murderer Lives at Number 21
1947
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The director of Continental Film was the German producer Alfred Greven, who was born in 1897 in Elberfeld and died in 1973 in Cologne. After leaving the Gymnasium he volunteered in September 1914 for the German Army. He fought at the Western Front in the infantry and was severely wounded.
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
9 février 1973 (à 75 ans) Profession. Réalisateur, producteur de cinéma. modifier. Alfred Greven, né le 9 octobre 1897 à Elberfeld et mort le 9 février 1973 à Cologne, est un réalisateur et producteur de film allemand, directeur de la Continental-Films à sa création le 3 octobre 1940 1 .
- 9 février 1973 (à 75 ans)
- Réalisateur, producteur de cinéma
- 9 octobre 1897Elberfeld
- Allemand
Alfred Greven is known as an Producer, Executive Producer, Actor, Creator, and Production Manager. Some of their work includes The Murderer Lives at Number 21, Carnival of Sinners, The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, Who Killed Santa Claus?, Strangers in the House, Whims, The Green Domino, and The Wolf Farm.
Under the direction of Alfred Greven, a former soldier and staunch Nazi, the company produced thirty full-length films between 1941 and 1944. Thanks to the considerable resources provided by the Germans and Greven's insistence on engaging only the best artists and technicians in an attempt to rival the achievements of Hollywood, these films ...
Nov 21, 2017 · Alfred Greven was the head a French movie studio founded with Nazi money producing propaganda and the most subversive masterpieces of French Cinema. Greven's intentional disappearance after the war and his silence until his death in 1973 maintain a certain mystery.
Alfred Greven was born on 9 October 1897 in Elberfeld, Germany. He was a producer and production manager, known for Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt (1933), Goal in the Clouds (1939) and Two Merry Adventurers (1937). He died on 9 February 1973 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.
