Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

504 • HERWIG, HANS
Durand; 1910 Athalie, short, Michel Carré; La Chatte
métamorphosée en Femme, short, Michel Carré). Having
been demobilized after being seriously injured,
he co-directed several movies with Louis Mercanton
(1916–1918). He co-wrote Gosse de Riche (Charles
Burguet, 1920) and wrote L’Homme à l’Hispano (Julien
Duvivier, 1926).
Filmography
1912 Le Charme de Maud (short)
1913 Le Spectre du Passé (short; co-director with
Louis Mercanton)
Maud amoureuse (short; also screenwriter)
1914 Maud en Culottes (short; also screenwriter)
L’Effi gie (short)
Le Gant de Maud (short)
La Remplaçante (co-director with Louis Mercanton)
Vendetta (co-director with Louis Mercanton;
also actor)
Fred est timide (short; also screenwriter)
Fred et la Blanchisseuse (short; also screenwriter,
actor)
Fred . . . couche-toi (short; also screenwriter,
actor)
Fred est fi ancé (short; also screenwriter, actor)
Maud Clubman (short; also screenwriter, actor)
Maud en Chiffons (short; also screenwriter,
actor)
Le Papillon et le Peintre (short)
1916 Jeanne Doré (co-director with Louis Mercanton)
Maud et Tante Zélie (short)
Suzanne (co-director with Louis Mercanton;
also screenwriter)
Suzanne, Professeur de Flirt (co-director with
Louis Mercanton; also screenwriter)
1917 Le Tournant (co-director with Louis Mercanton;
also co-screenwriter)
Mères françaises / USA: Mothers of France (codirector
with Louis Mercanton)
Manuella (co-director with Louis Mercanton;
also co-screenwriter)
Oh! Ce Baiser / USA: Oh, That Kiss! (co-director
with Louis Mercanton)
Midinettes (co-director with Louis Mercanton;
also screenwriter, actor)
La P’tite du Sixième (co-director with Louis
Mercanton; also co-screenwriter)
Le Tablier blanc (co-director with Louis Mercanton;
also co-screenwriter)
Le Torrent (co-director with Louis Mercanton)
1918 Un Roman d’Amour et d’Aventures
Bouclette / L’Ange de Minuit (co-director with
Louis Mercanton)
1919 Son Aventure (also screenwriter)
Simplette (also screenwriter)
1920 L’Ami Fritz (also screenwriter, adapter)
1921 Blanchette (also screenwriter, adapter)
1922 Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile / USA: Lord Arthur
Savile’s Crime (also screenwriter, adapter)
1923 Aux Jardins de Murcie (co-director with Louis
Mercanton)
Sarati le Terrible (co-director with Louis Mercanton)
Le Secret de Polichinelle (also screenwriter,
adapter)
1924 Paris
1926 La Flamme
Knock, ou le Triomphe de la Médecine
Le Bouif errant
1927 La Petite Chocolatière
1928 Minuit . . . Place Pigalle
1929 La Meilleure Maîtresse
Le Prince Jean (shot in 1927)
Le Ruisseau
Le Mystère de la Villa Rose (French fi lm version
of Leslie Hiscott’s At the Villa Rose / USA: Mystery
at the Villa Rose; co-director with Louis
Mercanton; UK)
1930 La Douceur d’aimer / USA: The Sweetness of
Loving (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1931 Azaïs
1932 Nicole et sa Vertu (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
Les Vignes du Seigneur
1933 Mannequins
1934 Un Train dans la Nuit
1936 Les Deux Gamines (co-director with Maurice
Champreux; also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
HERWIG, HANS (1909, Vienna, Austria–1967, Germany)
A former fi lm producer (1950 Mystère à Shangaï,
Roger Blanc; 1952 Les Surprises d’une Nuit de Noces,
Jean Vallée; 1953 L’Etrange Amazone, Jean Vallée), he
directed two fi lms.