Marcel Carné
Marcel Carné (1906–1996) was a French director regarded as one of the central figures of poetic realism, the dominant strand of French cinema in the late 1930s and early 40s. He began as an assistant to Jacques Feyder and René Clair before establishing his own career with a series of features written largely by the poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert. Their collaboration produced some of the canonical works of pre-war and wartime French cinema. His acclaimed films include Drôle de Drame, Quai des Brumes, Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour Se Lève, Les Visiteurs du Soir, Children of Paradise, and Thérèse Raquin.