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L' Homme du large (Man of the Sea) is a 1920 full length French silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier based on a novel by Honoré de Balzac . It was filmed on the windy coast of Brittany creating atmosphere in a film about the forces of good and evil that motivate human behaviour.
Nolff, a fisherman on the coast of Brittany, has aspirations that his son Michel will follow in his career path. However, Michel, a young rebel has different ideas and wastes his days and nights with his dissolute friends in the nearby town. When his mother passes away, Michel steals the money left by her to his sister Dejenna. Furious when he finds out, Nolff seizes his son and casts him out to sea in an open boat, to teach him a lesson or two.
- Jaque Catelain ... Michel
- Roger Karl ... Nolff
- Charles Boyer ... Guenn la Taupe
- Philippe Hériat ... Le protecteur
- Marcelle Pradot ... Djenna
- Claire Prélia ... La mère
- Claude Autant-Lara ... Un des copains
- Dimitri Dragomir ... Un des copains
- Suzanne Doris ... Lia
- Lili Samuel ... La lesbienne
- Georges Forois ... Le pêcheur
- Pâquerette ... La tenancière
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