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Marcel Carne
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18 August 1906 - 31 October 1996
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French film director Marcel Carne was born in the French capital Paris in the early XX century. Carne’s career began with the filming of the film “New Lords”. In the film, directed by Jacques Fader, he worked as an assistant cameraman J. Perinal. A little later, he helps on the set of René Clare during the filming of the masterpiece of European sound cinema - the comedy film Under the Roofs of Paris (1930). In 1936, Marcel Carnet presented his debut film “Jenny”. The French drama starred popular
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French film director Marcel Carne was born in the French capital Paris in the early XX century. Carne’s career began with the filming of the film “New Lords”. In the film, directed by Jacques Fader, he worked as an assistant cameraman J. Perinal. A little later, he helps on the set of René Clare during the filming of the masterpiece of European sound cinema - the comedy film Under the Roofs of Paris (1930).
In 1936, Marcel Carnet presented his debut film “Jenny”. The French drama starred popular actors Françoise Rosai and Lisette Lanven. In the late 1930s, Carnet collaborated with surrealist poet and screenwriter Jacques Prevert. Together they laid the foundations of French cinema of those times, which were largely determined by the current of “poetic realism”. Among the paintings typical of this period of creativity are such famous films as “The Embankment of Mists” (1938) and “The Day Begins” (1939). In these works, feelings of pessimism and fatalism were felt characteristic of that era.
Years of war adversely affected the work of Carne. He found himself in a German-occupied country and could only shoot historical costume dramas. During these years, he was influenced not only by the situation in the country and the lack of funds for productions, but also by strict German censorship. It was then that the film Evening Visitors (1942) was published, which was a medieval fairy tale about lovers opposing the power of the devil. The masterpiece of all of Carne's work was the painting "Children of Paradise" (1945). Later, in 1995, it was called by film critics “the best French film of the century”.
The harsh reality of Carnet’s films was not in demand among the post-war public, who then expected humor and romance from the cinema. That is why his subsequent work was not so successful. At this time, he presented to the audience the films “Juliet, or the Key to Dreams” (1951) and
Theresa Raken (1953)
In 1977, Carne made his last film, The Bible. In 1989, for this work, he was awarded the Imperial Prize, becoming the first holder of it among representatives of the field of cinema and theater.
Carnet died in his native France, in Clamart, in 1996, making a huge contribution to the world film industry. /