Georges Monca ( 23 October 1867 – 26 December 1939) was a French

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. He was extremely prolific, making nearly four hundred films during his career - mainly during the

silent era A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

. His shorts ''Rigadin Directeur de Cinéma'' and ''Rigadin et le Chien de la Baronne'' were preserved by the

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in 2010.

Selected filmography

* '' Romain Kalbris'' (1923) * '' Lucile'' (1927) * '' Miss Helyett'' (1928) * '' Billeting Order'' (1932) * '' Wedding Night'' (1935) * '' Three Days Leave'' (1936)

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1867 births 1939 deaths French male film actors French film directors {{France-film-director-stub