FILM DIRECTOR

Germaine Dulac

1882 - 1942

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Germaine Dulac (French: [dylak]; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Germaine Dulac has received more than 127,744 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Germaine Dulac is the 268th most popular film director (up from 288th in 2019), the 1,647th most popular biography from France (up from 1,710th in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Film Director.

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  • 26

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Germaine Dulac ranks 268 out of 2,041. Before her are John Frankenheimer, Hideaki Anno, Joseph Losey, David Hamilton, Robert Siodmak, and Damiano Damiani. After her are Bigas Luna, Jean Epstein, Martin Campbell, Leonid Gaidai, Youssef Chahine, and Franklin J. Schaffner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Germaine Dulac ranks 73. Before her are John Rabe, Friedrich Dollmann, Lucien Petit-Breton, Eduard Spranger, Korney Chukovsky, and Husband E. Kimmel. After her are Joaquín Turina, Leopold Stokowski, Harold Lowe, Natalia Sedova, Feng Yuxiang, and Ernst von Weizsäcker. Among people deceased in 1942, Germaine Dulac ranks 56. Before her are Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Felix Weingartner, Franz Walter Stahlecker, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Thorvald Stauning, and Ivan Bilibin. After her are Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Flinders Petrie, Dorothea Klumpke, Leopold Berchtold, Heinz Hitler, and Lauri Kristian Relander.

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In France

Among people born in France, Germaine Dulac ranks 1,647 out of 6,770. Before her are Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Georges Canguilhem (1904), Bixente Lizarazu (1969), Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (1874), Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914), and Robert-François Damiens (1715). After her are Gilles de Roberval (1602), Charlotte Perriand (1903), Thibaud Gaudin (1229), Felix of Valois (1127), Jacques Dutronc (1943), and Émile Coué (1857).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Germaine Dulac ranks 34. Before her are Chris Marker (1921), Jacques Becker (1906), Bertrand Tavernier (1941), Patrice Chéreau (1944), Frank Darabont (1959), and Julien Duvivier (1896). After her are Just Jaeckin (1940), Philippe de Broca (1933), Francis Veber (1937), William Kennedy Dickson (1860), Jean Rouch (1917), and Claude Sautet (1924).

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Filmography

The Smiling Madame Beudet
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An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
Nov 9o 19235.9 / 10
The Seashell and the Clergyman
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Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
Feb 9o 19286.7 / 10
The Cigarette
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A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
Oct 10o 19196.925 / 10