Title: L'Homme du large
Content:  L' Homme du large (English: Man of the Sea or Man of the Open Seas) is a 1920 French silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and based on a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was filmed on the rugged southern coast of Brittany creating atmosphere in a film about the forces of good and evil that motivate human behaviour.
Title: L'Homme du large
Content:  The first public screening of L'Homme du large took place on 3 December 1920 at the Gaumont Palace in Paris. It was enthusiastically received by both the public and the press. Its critical reputation was well-sustained in subsequent years. Film archivist Henri Langlois described it as "the first example of film writing". He argued that the film was not just a narrative of events linked together by intertitles, but a sequence of images whose message conveyed an idea; the superimposed titles reinforced the images in the manner of ideograms. While some critics were troubled by the contrast between the film's natural environment of coast and sea and its aesthetic 
Title: L'Homme du large
Content:  After the success of L'Herbier's previous film, Le Carnaval des vérités, Gaumont allowed him more resources for his next project, and in the spring of 1920 he drafted a scenario based loosely on a philosophical short story by Balzac called Un drame au bord de la mer. He said that he wanted to use again the sea of Brittany as a protagonist in a drama, an idea which he had explored previously in his scenario for Le Torrent (1917), but now to treat it more lyrically. He gave his story the title L'Homme du large, and added the subtitle Marine ("seascape").
Title: L'Homme du large
Content: Jaque Catelain as Michel ; Roger Karl as Nolff ; Marcelle Pradot as Djenna ; Claire Prélia as La mère ; Charles Boyer as Guenn-la-Taupe ; Claude Autant-Lara as Un des copains ; Dimitri Dragomir as Un des copains ; Suzanne Doris as Lia ; Philippe Hériat as Le protecteur ; Lili Samuel as La lesbienne ; Georges Forois as Le pêcheur ; Pâquerette as La tenancière 
Title: L'Homme du large
Content:  In 1998 a detailed restoration of the film was undertaken by CNC Archives françaises du film and Gaumont. It involved the reconstruction of many of the intertitles and the scheme of colour tinting using L'Herbier's original notes. The work was completed for presentation in 2001. An original orchestral score was composed by Antoine Duhamel. A DVD of the restored version was issued by Gaumont in 2009.
Title: L'Homme du large
Content:  "bouge") are tinted in a lurid red, and intercut with the mauve-tinted scenes showing the feverish mother at home. Jaque Catelain assisted L'Herbier with the editing of the film. As soon as it was finished, Léon Gaumont indicated to L'Herbier that he would like another film from him, a lighter one to contrast with the sombre drama of L'Homme du large, so that the two could be presented together. L'Herbier rapidly devised a pastiche of a tale of Oscar Wilde and a parody of a detective story which was called Villa Destin: it carried the subtitle Humoresque. The two films received their trade showing together on 31 October 1920.
Title: L'Homme du large
Content:  In June 1920, L'Herbier took a large crew to Brittany for location shooting around the coasts of Morbihan and Finistère, where he sought the wild landscapes which would establish the story's moral contrast between the pure grandeur of the sea and the corrupt temptations of the town. For the first time he had an "assistant director", a young man called Raymond Payelle who would soon take the professional name of Philippe Hériat. Also in his team as a set-designer was Claude Autant-Lara, and both he and Hériat also played small parts in the film. In another supporting role, Charles Boyer made his début in the cinema. L'Herbier's structure for 
Title: Great Man (film)
Content:  Great Man (French: Un grand patron) is a 1951 French drama film directed by Yves Ciampi and starring Pierre Fresnay, Renée Devillers and Jean-Claude Pascal. The film's art direction was by René Moulaert.
Title: Un drame au bord de la mer
Content:  The story was adapted into a French 1920 silent movie directed by Marcel L'Herbier called L'Homme du large.
Title: The Great Man (2014 film)
Content:  The Great Man (Le Grand Homme) is a 2014 French drama film co-written and directed by Sarah Leonor. It was screened in the Discovery section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

Question: Who was the director of L'Homme du large?
Answer: Marcel L'Herbier.
Marcel L' Herbier.