Marcel CarnéFilmography

Born:: August 18, 1909 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Between 1936 and 1946, Marcel Carné was among the chief proponents of poetic realism, a studio-bound film style that combined theatrical themes with elaborate dialogues which depicted ordinary people attempting to contend with the unalterable nature of destiny. The shadowy fatalism of poetic...Read More

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Carne: L'Homme A La Camera

Actors: Marcel Carné, Yves Montand

Synopsis: This was 76-year-old director Christian-Jacque's last film before his retirement, and it is dedicated to one of his contemporaries, Marcel Carne. Carne's film history is extolled through clips from some of his award-winning or acclaimed works such as Nogent, Eldorado du Dimanche (1929), Le Jour Se Leve Read More

1980
La Bible

Crew: Director

1977
La Merveilleuse Visite

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gilles Kohler, Deborah Berger, Lucien Barjon, Roland Le Saffre

Synopsis: The last of veteran moviemaker Marcel Carne's theatrical films, La Merveilleuse Visite was a surprisingly restrained film by one of the most colorful filmmakers in France. Jean (Gilles Kiher) stars as an angel who has fallen from heaven and landed in a picturesque French village. Nursed back to Read More

11/27/74
Les Assassins de l'Ordre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacques Brel, Catherine Rouvel, Charles Denner, Roland Le Saffre

Synopsis: In France, the position of "magistrate" resembles that of the American district attorney; those in either post have broad investigatory and prosecutory powers. In this French language drama, Magistrate Level (Jacques Brel) is one of the rare few who will prosecute the police for abuse of power. He Read More

5/7/71
Les Jeunes Loups

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Haydee Politoff, Christian Hay, Yves Beneyton, Elina Labourdette, Roland Le Saffre

Synopsis: This shallow film is a transparent attempt to make people think that the director and producer actually are in touch with the rebellious youth of 1968. The main character is a young man who is not opposed to sleeping with older women or men to get ahead. He meets a young hippie girl, a free spirit Read More

3/26/68
Trois Chambres a Manhattan

Crew: Director

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Annie Girardot, Gabriele Ferzetti, O.E. Hasse

Synopsis: Kay (Annie Girardot) and Francois (Maurice Ronet) are two people from France who meet and fall in love in New York in this melancholy romantic drama. She is a former countess, while he is an actor. Both of them must reconcile with their past while they decide to trust their feelings and possibly Read More

11/10/65
Du Mouron Pour les Petits Oiseaux

Crew: Director

Actors: Dany Saval, Paul Meurisse, Suzy Delair, Jean Richard

Synopsis: Ruthless and for some viewers, also vulgar and unpleasant, this uneven comedy by Marcel Carne has a madhouse of characters of dubious morals going through equally questionable antics. Their objectives are primarily self-serving. A former gangster (Paul Meurisse) is interested only in keeping birds Read More

2/15/63
Terrain Vague

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniele Gaubert

Synopsis: Studio-bound director Marcel Carne's career was already faltering with the onslaught of New Wave cinema and location shooting when he made this standard, somewhat old-fashioned drama about a group of teens in a bad neighborhood. The head of the local gang of petty thieves is a tough young woman Read More

11/9/60
Les Tricheurs

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pascale Petit, Andréa Parisy, Jacques Charrier, Laurent Terzieff, Roland Le Saffre

Synopsis: Les Tricheurs (The Cheats) was director Marcel Carne's first film after a two-year absence from the screen. On the surface, the film is a gallic variation of an American "j.d." film, with young, aimless teenagers being led astray by jazz music rather than Rock 'N' Roll. But there's much more to Read More

10/10/58
Le Pays, d'ou Je Viens

Crew: Director

Actors: Gilbert Becaud, Françoise Arnoul, Claude Brasseur

Synopsis: The old "mistaken identity" device is given a fresh slant in Marcel Carne's Le Pays d'Ou Ja Viens (The Country I Live In). Gilbert Becaud essays the dual role of a mild-mannered nobody and his exact double, a self-confidant musician. Mistaken for his more brash lookalike, the meek Becaud slowly Read More

1956
L'Air de Paris

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Roland Le Saffre, Jean Parédès

Synopsis: Though filmmaker Marcel Carne was no longer considered a trendsetter in the French cinema in the 1950s, his films still turned a profit and pleased the crowd. Heading the cast of Carne's L'Air de Paris is Jean Gabin, the star of the director's earlier Daybreak and other films. Gabin plays Victor Read More

1954
Thérèse Raquin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby, Roland Le Saffre, Sylvie

Synopsis: The grim Emile Zola "naturalist" novel Therese Raquin has been vividly cinematized by director Marcel Carne. Simone Signoret plays the title character, the long-suffering housewife who dreams of a more romantic life-partner than the bourgeois Camille (Jacques Duby). Therese enjoys a torrid affair Read More

11/6/53
Juliette ou La Clé Des Songes

Crew: Director

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Suzanne Cloutier, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Yves Robert

Synopsis: The English-language title of this Marcel Carne cinematic exercise is Juliette or Key of Dreams. The central character is not Juliette (Susan Clouthier), however, but a young incipient thief named Michel (Gerard Phillipe). Smitten by Juliette's charms, Michel steals for her sake, and ends up in Read More

1951
La Marie Du Port

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Nicole Courcel, Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Claude Romain

Synopsis: Recovering from his disastrous experience with the never-completed La Fleur de L'Age, French filmmaker Marcel Carne proved he hadn't lost his touch with La Marie du Port. Played by Nicole Courcel, the eponymous Marie is the younger sister of Odile (Blanchette Burnoy). Odile in turn is the mistress Read More

1950
Les Portes De La Nuit

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Jean Vilar

Synopsis: Marcel Carne's 1946 production La Porte de la Nuit was released in the U.S. four years later as Gates of the Night. Scripted by Carne's longtime collaborator Jacques Prevert, the film is set in Paris just after its liberation from the Nazis. The script points out that this was not only a time for Read More

1946
The Children of Paradise

Crew: Director

Actors: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Marcel Herrand, Albert Remy, Pierre Renoir

Synopsis: Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques Prévert's screenplay concerns four men in love with the mysterious Garance (Arletty). Each loves Garance in his own fashion, but only the intentions Read More

1945
Les Visiteurs Du Soir

Crew: Director

Actors: Arletty, Jules Berry, Marie Déa, Marcel Herrand, Fernand Ledoux, Alain Cuny

Synopsis: Originally released in 1942 as Les Visiteurs du Soir, The Devil's Envoys is another masterful collaboration between actress Arletty, writer Jacques Prevert and director Marcel Carne, who would team up one year later for the brilliant Les Enfants Du Paradis. The film is predicated on the 15th Read More

12/5/42
Le Jour Se Lève

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Jacqueline Laurent, Mady Berry, Jacques Baumer

Synopsis: Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert's classic of French poetic realism stars Jean Gabin in one of his most famous roles as Francois, a rough, barrel-chested loner who hides out in his apartment awaiting for the police to arrive. Francois has killed a man in a crime of passion, the slimy lothario Read More

1939
Hotel du Nord

Crew: Director

Actors: Arletty, Louis Jouvet, Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Hotel du Nord was the second in Marcel Carne's trio of "fatalistic romantic melodramas", bracketed on either side by Quai des Brumes and Le Jour se Leve. Star-crossed lovers Annabella and Jean-Pierre Aumont draw up a suicide pact, making their fatal rendezvous at the Hotel du Nord. Aumont shoots Read More

1938
Port of Shadows

Crew: Director

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Jacques Prevert, Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes) stars that eternal victim of society, Jean Gabin. Having deserted the French army, Gabin ducks into a back alley and meets the lovely Michelle Morgan. He becomes her champion by taking on her evil "protectors" (Michel Read More

1938
Drôle de Drame

Crew: Director

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nadine Vogel

Synopsis: In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by his cousin, a vicar, who shows up unannounced for a visit. Since the servants have just walked out, the writer's wife hides out from the vicar, taking care of the cooking Read More

1936
Jenny

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Vanel, Françoise Rosay, Lisette Lanvin, Albert Prejean

Synopsis: Marcel Carne's first film as director -- one of seven collaborations with screenwriter Jacques Prevert -- was this average crime story. Francoise Rosay stars as Jenny, who manages a sleazy nightclub owned by the nasty Benoit (Charles Vanel). Jenny runs afoul of Benoit, as well as her own daughter (Lisette Lanvin Read More

1936
La Kermesse Héroïque

Crew: Consultant/advisor

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Jean Murat, Louis Jouvet, Lyne Clévers, André Alerme, Micheline Cheirel

Synopsis: Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing Read More

1935