Directing
Louis Delluc
Born 1890-10-14 · Cadouin, Dordogne, France
Louis Delluc was an Impressionist French film director, screen writer and film critic. He was born in Cadouin in 1890. His family moved to Paris in 1903. After graduating from the university, he became a literary critic. During the First World War, he was married to the Belgian actress Ève Francis, who acted in many of his films. In 1917, Delluc began his career in film criticism. He went on to edit Le Journal du Ciné-club and Cinéa, establish film societies, and direct seven films. He was one of the early Impressionist filmmakers, along with Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac, Marcel L'Herbier, and Jean Epstein. His films are notable for their focus on ordinary events and the natural setting rather than on adventures and antics. Many of his early film writings for French newspapers were collected in the volume Cinema et cie (1919). He also wrote one of the first books on Charlie Chaplin (1921; translated into English in 1922). Delluc directed his seventh film, L'Inondation (The Flood), in 1924. Filming took place in very poor weather conditions and Delluc contracted pneumonia. He died in Paris several weeks later, before the film was released. The Prix Louis-Delluc, created in 1937, is named in his honour.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.0After the death of her mother, Germaine moves in with her father in a small town near the Rhône river. She falls in love with a young man, Alban, already engaged.
The Flood
1924
6.0After the death of her mother, Germaine moves in with her father in a small town near the Rhône river. She falls in love with a young man, Alban, already engaged.
The Flood
1924
7.0The tragedy of a man, about to kill himself, contemplating his past in a series of flashbacks.
Le Silence
1920
7.0The tragedy of a man, about to kill himself, contemplating his past in a series of flashbacks.
Le Silence
1920
5.5Militis, a sailor, returns to a bar where he finds Sarah, the girl he once loved and is still attracted to. However, he is now married to an exotic woman who took care of him during an illness.
Fièvre
1921
5.5Militis, a sailor, returns to a bar where he finds Sarah, the girl he once loved and is still attracted to. However, he is now married to an exotic woman who took care of him during an illness.
Fièvre
1921
6.3Coveted by two different men, a woman turns to a third man instead.
Spanish Fiesta
1920
5.7A fifty year old woman, scarred by a life of disillusionment and regret, returns to the place where she lived twenty years before, to rekindle happier memories. She meets a young woman, the daughter of the current owners' of the property, who is on the point of abandoning her home just as she did, all those years ago...
The Woman from Nowhere
1922
5.7A fifty year old woman, scarred by a life of disillusionment and regret, returns to the place where she lived twenty years before, to rekindle happier memories. She meets a young woman, the daughter of the current owners' of the property, who is on the point of abandoning her home just as she did, all those years ago...
The Woman from Nowhere
1922
7.2Etchégor, a wealthy Basque peasant is in love with the beautiful American Majesty Parnell. Her husband, about to be arrested for theft, seeks to forge an alibi.
Ernoa's Way
1921