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Marcel L'Herbier
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…
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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.
Filmography
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1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1975
La Féerie des fantasmes
Movie Director
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1954
What the East Wind Saw
Movie Director
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1953
The Father of the Girl
Movie Director
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1950
The Last Days of Pompeii
Movie Director
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1948
Stolen Affections
Movie Director
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1946
Queen's Necklace
Movie Director
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1946
Happy Go Lucky
Movie Director
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1945
The Bohemian Life
Movie Director
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1943
The Honorable Catherine
Movie Director
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1942
Fantastic Night
Movie Director
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1941
Foolish Husbands
Movie Director
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1940
Comedy of Happiness
Movie Director
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1940
La Mode rêvée
Movie Director
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1939
Savage Brigade
Movie Director
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1939
Cordial Agreement
Movie Director
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1939
Land of Fire
Movie Director
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1938
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Movie Director
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1938
Rasputin
Movie Director
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1937
Forfaiture
Movie Director
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1937
The Citadel of Silence
Movie Director
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1937
Nights of Fire
Movie Director
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1936
The Great Temptation
Movie Director
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1936
Children's Corner
Movie Director
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1936
The New Men
Movie Director
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1935
The Imperial Road
Movie Director
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1935
Sacrifice of Honor
Movie Director
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1934
The Adventurer
Movie Director
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1934
Le Bonheur
Movie Director
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1934
The Scandal
Movie Screenplay
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1933
The Hawk
Movie Writer
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1931
Scent of the Woman in Black
Movie Director
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1930
Zuiderzeewerken
Movie Producer
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1930
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Movie Director
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1930
La Femme d'une nuit
Movie Director
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1930
Illegitimate Child
Movie Director
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1929
Princely Nights
Movie Director
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1929
Autour de l'argent
Movie Himself
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1928
L'Argent
Movie Director
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1928
Little Devil May Care
Movie Director
