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Marcel Carné

Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
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), The Devil's Envoys (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945), the last of which has been cited as one of the greatest films of all time.

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