Germaine Dulac

Biography

Germaine Dulac; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood. A few years after her marriage she embarked on a journalistic career in a feminist magazine, and later became interested in film. Germaine Dulac was born into an upper-middle-class family of a career military officer. Since her father's job required the family to frequently move between small garrison towns, Germaine was sent to live with her grandmother in Paris. She soon became interested in art and studied music, painting, and theater. Following the death of her parents, Dulac moved to Paris and combined her growing interests in socialism and feminism with a career in journalism. In 1905 she married Louis-Albert Dulac, an agricultural engineer who also came from an upper-class family. Four years later she began writing for La Française, a feminist magazine edited by Jane Misme where she eventually became the drama critic. Dulac also found time to work on the editorial staff of La Fronde, a radical feminist journal of the time. She also began to pursue her interest in still photography, wh…

Directed

1. The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) — Director
2. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928) — Director
3. The Cigarette (1919) — Director
4. Arabesque (1929) — Director
5. Those Who Worry (1930) — Director
6. Record 957 (1928) — Director
7. Invitation to a Journey (1927) — Director
8. Themes and Variations (1928) — Director
9. Danses espagnoles (1928) — Director
10. The Devil in the City (1925) — Director
11. Spanish Fiesta (1920) — Director
12. The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy (1921) — Director
13. Gossette (1923) — Director
14. Princesse Mandane (1928) — Director
15. Ceux qui ne s’en font pas (1930) — Director
16. The Madness of the Valiants (1926) — Director
17. Mon Paris (1928) — Director
18. The Death of the Sun (1922) — Director
19. Heart of an Actress (1924) — Director
20. Âmes de fous (1918) — Director
21. Antoinette Sabrier (1927) — Director
22. Malencontre (1920) — Director
23. La jeune fille la plus méritante de France (1918) — Director
24. Les soeurs ennemies (1915) — Director
25. Le bonheur des autres (1919) — Director
26. Géo, le mystérieux (1917) — Director
27. Le retour à la vie (1936) — Director
28. Le cinéma au service de l'histoire (1935) — Director
29. Faubourg Dreams (1930) — Director
30. Once…Today (1930) — Director
31. Werther (1922) — Director
32. Venus Victrix (1917) — Director
33. Ce qu'il a dit, ce qu'il a fait (1939) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978) — Self (archive footage)