Germaine Dulac

Germaine Dulac ( born November 17, 1882 in Amiens, France, † July 20, 1942 in Paris, France) was a French film director and film theorist.

Life and achievements

Germaine Dulac, born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset -Schneider, the daughter of a cavalry captain, grew up with her grandmother in Paris. In 1905 she married the engineer and amendment Author Marie -Louis Albert - Dulac, who moved to devote himself to journalism. She was an editor at La Française, where she wrote, among other theater and movie reviews.

Dulac debuted as a director with the film Les Soeurs ennemies from 1915 you turned new means of artistic expression to. ; La fête espagnole with their films (1920 ) and La souriante Madame Beudet (1922 ), she starred opposite Louis Delluc the most important representative of the French film Impressionism early 20s. In the film L'invitation au voyage (1927 ) she appeared not only as a director but also as a screenwriter and film producer. Her film La coquille et le clergyman (1928 ) from a screenplay by Antonin Artaud is considered the first surrealist film Un Chien Andalou (1928 ) was filmed before the movie.

Filmography (selection)

As a director

As a screenwriter

Bibliography

  • .. Charles Ford: Germaine Dulac: 1882 - 1942 Avant- Scène du Cinéma, Paris, 1968 ( Series: Anthologie du cinema; 31)
  • Wendy Dozoretz: Germaine Dulac: filmmaker, polemicist, theoretician. New York University, Diss, 1982
  • Friends of the German Film Archive (ed.) [ note: Sabine Nessel ]: L'invitation au voyage, Germaine Dulac. International Symposium " L' invitation au voyage - Germaine Dulac ," (Frankfurt am Main ): 2002.10.31-11.03. Friends of Dt. Cinematheque, Berlin 2002, Cinematheque series, No. 93, ISBN 3-927876-17-8
  • Jörg Gerle: La Coquille et le Clergyman / L' Invitation au Voyage. Criticism from filmdienst No. 12/2005
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