Marcel L'Herbier
Directing
1888-04-23 · Paris, France
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.
Filmography
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1978 · Series
La Féerie des fantasmes
1975 · Movie
What the East Wind Saw
1954 · Movie
The Father of the Girl
1953 · Movie
The Last Days of Pompeii
1950 · Movie
Stolen Affections
1948 · Movie
Queen's Necklace
1946 · Movie
Happy Go Lucky
1946 · Movie
The Bohemian Life
1945 · Movie
The Honorable Catherine
1943 · Movie
Fantastic Night
1942 · Movie
Foolish Husbands
1941 · Movie
Comedy of Happiness
1940 · Movie
La Mode rêvée
1940 · Movie
Savage Brigade
1939 · Movie
Cordial Agreement
1939 · Movie
Land of Fire
1939 · Movie
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1938 · Movie
Rasputin
1938 · Movie
Forfaiture
1937 · Movie
The Citadel of Silence
1937 · Movie
Nights of Fire
1937 · Movie
The Great Temptation
1936 · Movie
Children's Corner
1936 · Movie
The New Men
1936 · Movie
The Imperial Road
1935 · Movie
Sacrifice of Honor
1935 · Movie
The Adventurer
1934 · Movie
Le Bonheur
1934 · Movie
The Scandal
1934 · Movie
The Hawk
1933 · Movie
Scent of the Woman in Black
1931 · Movie
Zuiderzeewerken
1930 · Movie
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
1930 · Movie
La Femme d'une nuit
1930 · Movie
Illegitimate Child
1930 · Movie
Princely Nights
1929 · Movie
Autour de l'argent
1929 · Movie
L'Argent
1928 · Movie
Little Devil May Care
1928 · Movie
Le Vertige
1926 · Movie
The Late Mathias Pascal
1925 · Movie
The Inhuman Woman
1924 · Movie
The Gallery of Monsters
1924 · Movie
The Flood
1924 · Movie
News Item
1923 · Movie
Le marchand de plaisirs
1923 · Movie
Résurrection
1923 · Movie
Don Juan et Faust
1922 · Movie
El Dorado
1921 · Movie
Prometheus, Banker
1921 · Movie
Villa Destin
1921 · Movie
The Man of the Sea
1920 · Movie
Le Carnaval des vérités
1920 · Movie
Le Bercail
1919 · Movie
Rose-France
1919 · Movie
Infatuation
1918 · Movie
The Blindness of Youth
1917 · Movie