Marcel Vandal (1882–1965) was a French film producer. During the 1910s he worked closely with the German producer

Erich Pommer Erich Pommer (20 July 1889 – 8 May 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European film industries in the 1920s and early 1930s. As producer, Erich Pommer was involved ...

for the French company Eclair. Vandal served in the

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during the

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. He directed four

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s between 1926 and 1928. Vandal and Pommer later collaborated following the latter's exile from

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, firstly in Paris on ''

Liliom ''Liliom'' is a 1909 play by the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár. It was well known in its own right during the early to mid-20th century, but is best known today as the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1945 musical ''Carousel''. P ...

'' (1934) and later in London for ''

Vessel of Wrath ''Vessel of Wrath'' is a 1938 British film directed by Erich Pommer, produced by Pommer, and starring Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester. It was based on the 1931 Somerset Maugham short story " The Vessel of Wrath". The film is also known as ...

'' (1938).Hardt p.151

Selected filmography

Producer

* '' The Secret of Polichinelle'' (1923) * '' The Bread Peddler'' (1923) * ''

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'' (1924) * '' Knock'' (1925) * '' The Flame'' (1926) * '' The Man with the Hispano'' (1926) * '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (1927) * '' The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower'' (1928) * '' The Maelstrom of Paris'' (1928) * ''

David Golder ''David Golder'' is a 1929 novel by Ukrainian-French writer Irène Némirovsky. ''David Golder'' was first published in France in December 1929; the novel, Némirovsky's first, won instant acclaim for the 26-year-old author. An English translati ...

'' (1931) * '' Mountains on Fire'' (1931) * '' Moon Over Morocco'' (1931) * ''

The Five Accursed Gentlemen ''The Five Accursed Gentlemen'' () is a 1932 French mystery drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Anton Walbrook, Camilla Horn and Jack Trevor.Bock & Bergfelder p. 538 It was made as the German-language version of '' Moon Over Moroc ...

'' (1932) * ''

Amourous Adventure ''Amourous Adventure'' (French: ''L'amoureuse aventure'') is a 1932 French romantic comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Albert Préjean and Marie Glory. It was a French language version of the 1932 German film ''Madame Makes Her ...

'' (1932) * '' A Man's Neck'' (1933) * '' The Man with the Hispano'' (1933) * '' The Lady of Lebanon'' (1934) * ''

'' (1934)

Director

* ''

Graziella ''Graziella'' is an 1852 novel by the French author Alphonse de Lamartine. It tells of a young French man who falls for a fisherman's granddaughter – the eponymous Graziella – during a trip to Naples, Italy; they are separated when ...

'' (1926) * '' The Crystal Submarine'' (1927)

References

Bibliography

* Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996.

External links

* 1882 births 1965 deaths French film producers Film directors from Paris French military personnel of World War I {{France-film-bio-stub