Marcel L'Herbier
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.
What the East Wind Saw
(Director)
Infatuation
(Scenario Writer)
Forfaiture
(Director)
The Honorable Catherine
(Director)
The Late Mathias Pascal
(Director)
Fantastic Night
(Director)
L'Argent
(Director)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
(Director)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
(Scenario Writer)
Scent of the Woman in Black
(Director)
L'Inhumaine
(Director)
L'Inhumaine
(Scenario Writer)
El Dorado
(Director)
Comedy of Happiness
(Director)
Comedy of Happiness
(Writer)
The Man of the Sea
(Director)
Little Devil May Care
(Director)
Le Vertige
(Director)
Prometheus, Banker
(Director)
Prometheus, Banker
(Writer)
The Gallery of Monsters
(Producer)
The Blindness of Youth
(Screenplay)
Children's Corner
(Director)
Foolish Husbands
(Director)
Foolish Husbands
(Writer)
Le Bonheur
(Director)
Le Bonheur
(Writer)
The Great Temptation
(Director)
Rose-France
(Director)
Le Bercail
(Director)
Le Carnaval des vérités
(Director)
Don Juan et Faust
(Director)
Princely Nights
(Director)
News Item
(Producer)
News Item
(Art Direction)
Sacrifice of Honor
(Director)
Illegitimate Child
(Director)
The Late Mathias Pascal
(Writer)
Land of Fire
(Director)
Zuiderzee works
(Producer)
The New Men
(Director)
Savage Brigade
(Director)
Savage Brigade
(Writer)
The Imperial Road
(Director)
The Imperial Road
(Scenario Writer)
Rasputin
(Director)
The Adventurer
(Director)
La Mode rêvée
(Director)
La Mode rêvée
(Screenplay)
Résurrection
(Writer)
Résurrection
(Director)
La Féerie des fantasmes
(Director)
The Hawk
(Writer)
Le Scandale
(Screenplay)
Sacrifice of Honor
(Screenplay)
The Bohemian Life
(Director)
Infatuation
(Writer)
Nights of Fire
(Director)
Cordial Agreement
(Director)
The Man of the Sea
(Writer)
The Last Days of Pompeii
(Director)
The Last Days of Pompeii
(Dialogue)
The Last Days of Pompeii
(Screenplay)
Queen's Necklace
(Director)
The Father of the Girl
(Director)
The Father of the Girl
(Screenplay)
The New Men
(Screenplay)
The Gallery of Monsters
(Art Direction)
La Femme d'une nuit
(Director)
Adrienne Lecouvreur
(Director)
Nights of Fire
(Screenplay)
Le Carnaval des vérités
(Writer)
El Dorado
(Writer)
The Great Temptation
(Writer)
Rose-France
(Writer)
Happy Go Lucky
(Director)
Fantastic Night
(Adaptation)
Princely Nights
(Screenplay)
The Citadel of Silence
(Director)
Le Scandale
(Director)
The Hawk
(Director)
Stolen Affections
(Director)
Stolen Affections
(Screenplay)
Little Devil May Care
(Screenplay)
Le Vertige
(Writer)
Villa Destin
(Director)
La Femme d'une nuit
(Scenario Writer)
The Man of the Sea
(Editor)
Villa Destin
(Scenario Writer)
Don Juan et Faust
(Screenplay)
L'Argent
(Writer)
Adrienne Lecouvreur
(Writer)
Le marchand de plaisirs
(Producer)
Le marchand de plaisirs
(Art Direction)
Rasputin
(Screenplay)
Scent of the Woman in Black
(Screenplay)