- Dulac, Germaine
- (Germaine Charlotte Saisset-Schneider / November 17, 1882, Amiens, Somme, France - July 20, 1942, Paris, France)Born into a family of industrialists, she was raised by her grandmother in Paris. After studying various arts, including opera, dance, and music, she married writer and journalist Marie-Louis-Albert Dulac in 1905. A militant suffragette, she collaborated on Marguerite Durant's feminist newspaper La Fronde and to La Française (1906-1913), the organ of the French suffragette movement in which she published theater criticism. Her meeting with actress Stacia Napierkowska led her to cinema in 1914. The following year, she created a production company run by her husband that successively was named Krishna, Delia, and then D.H. Film. She co-produced La Lumière du Coeur (Edmond Van Daële, 1916) and supervised the shootings of Mon Paris (Albert Guyot, 1927) and Le Picador (Lucien Jaquelux, 1932). Her name remained linked to avant-garde cinema. She was a film theorist and the permanent secretary of the French cine-club movement.Filmography1917 ◘ Les Sœurs ennemies◘ Dans l'Ouragan de la Vie / Venus Victrix Géo le Mystérieux ou La Vraie Richesse1918 ◘ Âmes de Fous (six episodes: "La Seconde Marquise de Sombreuse", "Le Château maudit", "Folie, L'Exilée", "La Danseuse inconnue", "Hallucination et Réalité"; also screenwriter)◘ Le Bonheur des Autres◘ La Jeune Fille la plus méritante de France1919 ◘ La Fête espagnole◘ La Cigarette◘ Malencontre◘ La Belle Dame sans Merci◘ La Mort du Soleil / German version: Die ster-bende Sonne / USA: The Death of the Sun Werther (short)◘ Gossette (six episodes: "La Nuit tragique", "Le Revenant", "Face à Face", "L'Embûche", "Les Lettres volées", "La Vengeance du Mort")◘ La Souriante Madame Beudet (short)1925 ◘ Le Diable dans la Ville◘ Âme d'Artiste / USA: Heart of an Artist◘ La Folie des Vaillants◘ Le Cinéma au Service de l'Histoire (documentary)◘ L'Invitation au Voyage / USA: Invitation to a Journey (short; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, producer)1928 ◘ Antoinette Sabrier (also adapter; shot in 1928)◘ Thèmes et Variations (short)◘ La Princesse Mandane / L'Oublié◘ La Germination d'un Haricot (documentary; short)◘ Disque 957 (short)◘ Danses espagnoles (short)◘ Celles qui s'en font (short)◘ La Coquille et le Clergyman / UK and USA: The Seashell and the Clergyman (short; also co-screenwriter, producer)1929 ◘ Etude cinégraphique sur une Arabesque (short)1934 ◘ Je n'ai plus rien (short; filmed song)
Encyclopedia of French film directors . Philippe Rège. 2011.