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Marcel Carné, the son of a cabinet maker, entered the movies as the assistant of Jacques Feyder.At the age of 25 he directed his first movie Jenny (1936).Colaborating with the writer Jacques Prévert, the decorator Alexandre Trauner, the musician and composer Maurice Jaubert and the actor Jean Gabin he became the great director of the pre-war era of the French cinema with the poetic realism ...
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- Paris, France
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- Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Marcel Albert Carné (French: [maʁsɛl albɛʁ kaʁne]; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945); the latter has been cited as one of the great films of all time.
- 1936–1976
- Marcel Albert Carné, 18 August 1906, Paris, France
Children of Paradise. Children of Paradise (original French title: Les Enfants du Paradis) is a two-part French romantic drama film by Marcel Carné, produced under war conditions in 1943, 1944, and early 1945 in both Vichy France and Occupied France. Set in the theatrical world of 1830s Paris, it tells the story of a courtesan and four men ...
- 4,768,505 admissions (France)
- Raymond Borderie, Fred Orain
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Oct 31, 1996 · Born in Paris, France, the son of a cabinet maker whose wife died when their son was five, Marcel Carné began his career as a film critic, becoming editor of the weekly publication, Hebdo-Films, and working for Cinémagazine and Cinémonde between 1929 and 1933. In the same period he worked in silent film as a camera assistant with director Jacques Feyder. By age 25, Carné had already ...
Marcel Carné (born August 18, 1906, Paris, France—died October 31, 1996, Clamart, near Paris) was a motion-picture director noted for the poetic realism of his pessimistic dramas. He led the French cinema revival of the late 1930s. After holding various jobs, Carné joined the director Jacques Feyder as an assistant in 1928, and he also ...
