Marcel Carne, one of France's greatest film directors who produced the classic "The Children of Paradise," died Thursday. He was 90.
Carne died at the Clinique du Plateau in the Paris suburb of Clamart, a hospital spokesman said on condition of anonymity. No cause of death was given.Carne, whose style became known as "poetic realism," teamed with Jacques Prevert to shoot two of his greatest films during the Nazi occupation of France during World War II.
To indirectly denounce the occupation, Carne used a medieval story in the 1942 film "Les Visiteurs du Soir" (Night Visitors), and the lives of a theater troupe in "Les Enfants du Paradis" (The Children of Paradise), shot from 1943-45.
The son of an artisan, Carne was born Aug. 18, 1906, in Paris.