Germaine Dulac

Germaine Saisset-Schneider, known as Germaine Dulac, was born in Amiens on 17 November 1882, into a military family; her father was a cavalry captain. Raised in Paris by her grandmother, she studied music and the arts there. Married in 1905 to Albert Dulac, she wrote for the feminist press from 1909. In 1915, she founded a production company with the screenwriter Irène Hillel-Erlanger, then devoted herself to newsreels. A theorist of a cinema freed from literature, she presided over the Fédération des ciné-clubs de France. She died in Paris in July 1942.

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• CinemaThe Smiling Madame BeudetLa Souriante Madame BeudetGermaine Dulac · 1923Cinema