Germaine Dulac
Date of Birth: 17 Nov 1882
Country: France
Biography: Germaine Dulac (born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic.
Total Credits at Criticker: 14 (Director), 3 (Writer)
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La Coquille et le Clergyman (1928) - Short Film
Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism. (imdb)
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La Souriante Madame Beudet (1923) - Short Film
One of the first feminist movies, The Smiling Madame Beudet is the story of an intelligent woman trapped in a loveless marriage. Her husband is used to playing a stupid practical joke in which he puts an empty revolver to his head and threatens to shoot himself. One day, while the husband is away, she puts bullets in the revolver... (imdb)
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Thèmes et variations (1928) - Short Film
Experimental film about movement and rhythm with a dancing woman.
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L'invitation au voyage (1927) - Short Film
A woman enters a nightclub and slowly begins to open herself up.
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Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque (1929) - Short Film
A series of objects filmed in such a way to create a moving arabesque.
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Disque 957 (1928) - Short Film
Dulac uses the music of Chopin to frame a series of abstract visuals.
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La germination d'un haricot (1928) - Short Film
Short science doc about the sprouting of a small beanstalk.
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Celles qui s'en font (1928) - Short Film
Experimental examination of the struggles faced by women in Paris.
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Danses espagnoles (1928) - Short Film
Carmencita Garcia, a Spanish flamenco dancer, performs two dances.
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A young factory foreman bored with his job and fiancee reads pulp novels and daydreams of rescuing the Princess Mandane.
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A Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
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A small town during the 15th century. A band of smugglers settle in the abandoned Grey Tower. At a city auction a mysterious stranger buys the tower. Rumors has he is sent by the devil.
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Coveted by two different men, a woman turns to a third man instead. Only about 25-min exists of the 67-min feature film.
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