Germaine Dulac

Germaine Dulac

director, writer, producer

Germaine Dulac was born on Nov 17, 1882 in France. Germaine Dulac's big-screen debut came with The Cigarette directed by Germaine Dulac in 1919. Germaine Dulac is known for Gossette directed by Germaine Dulac, Régine Bouet stars as Gossette and Maurice Schutz as Comte de Savières. The upcoming new movie Germaine Dulac plays is The Seashell and the Clergyman which will be released on Feb 16, 1933.

The daughter of a cavalry captain, she was raised by a grandmother in Paris, where she studied various forms of art with an emphasis on music and the opera. In 1905 she married engineer-novelist Marie-Louis Albert-Dulac and under his influence veered toward journalism. As one of the leading radical feminists of her day, she was editor of La Française, the organ of the French suffragette movement. She also doubled as theater and cinema critic of the publication and became increasingly enamored with film as an art form. In 1915 she formed, with her husband, a small production company, Delia Film, and began directing highly inventive, small-budget pictures. Chronologically, she was the second woman director in French films, after

  • Birthday

    Nov 17, 1882
  • Place of Birth

    Amiens, Somme, France

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