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. In 1917, he fought in the
Luftstreitkräfte and was awarded the
Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. After the war he started to work in the movie business in 1920, joining the
Nazi Party in 1931. In 1934, he was head of the committee for film production in the
Reichsfilmkammer. Some of the films he produced were
The Old and the Young King,
The Green Domino and
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes. In 1940,
Goebbels appointed him managing director of the newly established Continental Film, his direct superior being
Max Winkler. Films Greven produced after the war include
Bonjour Kathrin. == References ==