Marcel Carné

Biography

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 directed his first short film, Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929). He assisted Feyder (and René Clair) on several films through to La kermesse héroïque (1935). Feyder accepted an invitation to work in England for Alexander Korda, for whom he made Knight Without Armour (1937), but made it possible for Carné to take over his project, Jenny (1936), as its director. The film marked the beginning of a successful collaboration with surrealist poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert. This collaborative relationship lasted for more than a dozen years, during which Carné and Prévert created their best remembered films. Together, they were involved in the poetic realism film movement of fatalistic tragedies. Under the German occupation of France during World War II, Carné worked in the Vichy zone where he subver…

Directed

1. Children of Paradise (1945) — Director
2. Port of Shadows (1938) — Director
3. Daybreak (1939) — Director
4. Hôtel du Nord (1938) — Director
5. The Devil's Envoys (1942) — Director
6. Bizarre, Bizarre (1937) — Director
7. Thérèse Raquin (1953) — Director
8. Gates of the Night (1946) — Director
9. Law Breakers (1971) — Director
10. The Cheaters (1958) — Director
11. Air of Paris (1954) — Director
12. Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965) — Director
13. Marie of the Port (1950) — Director
14. Juliette, or Key of Dreams (1951) — Director
15. Chicken Feed for Little Birds (1963) — Director
16. Jenny (1936) — Director
17. Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929) — Director
18. The Marvelous Visit (1974) — Director
19. The Country I Come From (1956) — Director
20. Young Wolves (1968) — Director
21. Wasteland (1960) — Director
22. The Bible (1977) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Champs-Elysées (1982) — Self
2. 1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019) — Self (archive footage)
3. Apostrophes (1975) — Self
4. Cinépanorama (1956) — Self
5. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
6. Midi Première (1975) — Self
7. Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (2020) — Self (archive footage)
8. Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) — Self
9. Midi trente (1972) — Self
10. Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978) — Self
11. Marcel Carné: My Life in Film (1995) — Self
12. The Birth of Children of Paradise (1967) — Self
13. Carné, Prévert : drôle de duo (2019) — Self (archive footage)
14. Le monde est à vous (1987) — Self