Marcel L'Herbier
Directing
Born 1888-04-23
Died 1979-11-26
Paris, France
58 credits
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Marcel L'Herbier (1888-1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC).
In 1921, only three years after his first film, Marcel L'Herbier was voted by readers of a French film magazine as the best French director. In the following year, the critic Léon Moussinac marked him as one of the filmmakers whose work was most important for the future of cinema. In this period, L'Herbier was linked with filmmakers such as Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc as part of a "first avant-garde" (Impressionism) in French cinema, the first generation to think spontaneously in animated images.
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Filmography
Le Carnaval des vérités
Le marchand de plaisirs
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The Inhuman Woman
The Flood
L'Argent
The Scandal
The Adventurer
The Imperial Road
El Dorado
Prometheus, Banker
Rose-France
Forfaiture
The New Men
Villa Destin
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Le Bercail
Le Vertige
The Blindness of Youth
Little Devil May Care
News Item
La Femme d'une nuit
The Man of the Sea
Scent of the Woman in Black
Queen's Necklace
Sacrifice of Honor
The Late Mathias Pascal
Le Bonheur
Don Juan et Faust
Zuiderzeewerken
Rasputin
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
The Last Days of Pompeii
The Honorable Catherine
The Gallery of Monsters
Cordial Agreement
Autour de l'argent
The Great Temptation
Comedy of Happiness
Infatuation
La Mode rêvée
Fantastic Night
Happy Go Lucky
Children's Corner
Stolen Affections
Princely Nights
The Bohemian Life
The Father of the Girl
The Hawk
Foolish Husbands
The Citadel of Silence
Nights of Fire
Land of Fire
Résurrection
Savage Brigade
La Féerie des fantasmes
Illegitimate Child
What the East Wind Saw
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