The Merry Widow (1962 film)
The Merry Widow( originally Die lustige Witwe) is a 1962 Austrian/ French musical film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Peter Alexander, Karin Hübner and Gunther Philipp.
It is based on the operetta" The Merry Widow" by Franz Lehár.
Eternal Allegiance
Eternal Allegiance( German: In Treue stark) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Heinrich Brandt and starring Otto Gebühr, Claire Rommer and Paul Richter.
The film's art direction was by Max Knaake.
Philippe Moureaux
Philippe Moureaux( 12 April 1939 – 15 December 2018) was a Belgian politician, senator, mayor of Molenbeek- Saint- Jean, and professor of economic history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
He held the honorary title of Minister of State and was a member of the Order of Leopold II and the Order of Leopold.
Abhishek Saxena
Abhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu.
The Phullu movie was released in theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role.
Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film.
This film was screened in cinemas in 2014.
Heinrich Brandt
Heinrich Brandt( 8 November 1886, in Feudingen – 9 October 1954, in Halle, Saxony- Anhalt) was a German mathematician who was the first to develop the concept of a groupoid.
Brandt studied at the University of Göttingen and, from 1910 to 1913, at the University of Strasbourg.
In 1912 he attained his doctorate; he was a student of Heinrich Martin Weber.
From 1913 he was assistant at the University of Karlsruhe( TH).
He taught geometry and applied mathematics from 1921 at RWTH Aachen.
From 1930 he was the chair for mathematics at the University of Halle.
A Brandt matrix is a computational way of describing the Hecke operator action on theta series as modular forms.
The theory was developed in part by Brandt's student Martin Eichler.
It offers an algorithmic approach for machine computation( in that theta series span spaces of modular forms); the theory is now considered by means of Brandt modules.
Barbara McNair
Barbara
Jean McNair( March 4, 1934 – February 4, 2007) was an American singer and theater, television and film actress.
McNair's career spanned over five decades appearing in television, film and stage.
McNair's professional career began in music during the late 1950s, singing in the nightclub circuit.
In 1958, McNair released her debut single" Till There Was You" from Coral Records which was a commercial success.
McNair performed all across the world, touring with Nat King Cole and later appearing in his Broadway stage shows" I'm with You" and" The Merry World of Nat King Cole" in the early 1960s.
By the 1970s, McNair gradually changed over to acting in films and television; she played Sidney Poitier's wife in" They Call Me Mister Tibbs!"( 1970) and its sequel," The Organization"( 1971).
In her later years, McNair returned to performing in nightclubs and on cruise ships.
McNair died from throat cancer on February 4, 2007 at age 72.
Gilles Carle
Gilles Carle,( July 31, 1928 – November 28, 2009) was a French Canadian director, screenwriter and painter.
Gilles Carle, who was a key figure in the development of a commercial Québec cinema, worked as a graphic artist and writer before he joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1960.
His innovative debut feature," La Vie heureuse de Léopold Z.", tracked the adventures of a snowplough operator during a madcap Christmas Eve.
But after the NFB rejected several of his projects, he began working independently.
In 1971 Carle joined forces with Pierre Lamy to form Les Productions Carle- Lamy, which produced Claude Jutra ’s epic" Kamouraska", Denys Arcand ’s early features and all his early films.
The quirkily paced, proto-feminist" La Vraie Nature de Bernadette" – widely regarded as his best film – and" Le Mort d ’un bûcheron" eventually led to the more mainstream but graceful" Les Plouffe" and the epic love story" Maria Chapdelaine", both classics of Quebec cinema.
In 1972 Carle won the Canadian Film Award for best Director for his" The True Nature of Bernadette".
Carle was born in Maniwaki, Quebec.
His film" 50 ans", celebrating the" 50 years" of the National Film Board of Canada, won the Short Film Palme d' Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1990, he was awarded the Government of Quebec's Prix Albert- Tessier.
In 1997, Carle received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
In 2007, he was made a Grand Officer of the Ordre National du Quebec.
Carle died aged 81 on November 28, 2009 of complications from Parkinson's disease at the hospital in Granby, Quebec.
He is survived by his son and three daughters as well as his companion of 27 years, Chloé Sainte- Marie.
Quebec Premier Jean Charest described him, at his death, as one of Quebec's most influential filmmakers.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1918 film)
The Merry Wives of Windsor( German: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) is a 1918 German silent comedy film directed by William Wauer.
It is an adaptation of William Shakespeare's" The Merry Wives of Windsor".
Ben Palmer
Ben Palmer is a British film and television director who is known for being the director of" Bo' Selecta" and" The Inbetweeners".
The Merry World of Leopold Z
La vie heureuse de Léopold Z( English:" The Merry World of Léopold Z") is a 1965 comedy- drama by Gilles Carle that played a key role in efforts to create a popular national cinema in Quebec.
The film follows the misadventures of its title character, a snow plow operator for the City of Montreal, on Christmas Eve.
" La vie heureuse de Léopold Z" incorporates documentary film footage of snow clearing in Montreal, and in fact, had been originally commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada as a documentary on snow clearing, only to be turned into a fictional film by the director.
The film paints a portrait of a hapless Québécois little man, battling the winter elements as well as the demands of consumerism, sexual desire and the requirement at that time for French- speaking Quebecers to speak English to be successful.
As with other Quebec NFB films of the period," La vie heureuse de Léopold Z" incorporates Direct Cinema techniques.
It is also a film with a strong political point of view, with Carle intending his central character to be a" pre-revolutionary" figure, representing how the Québécois people were being exploited by a capitalist, English- speaking power structure.
Ironically, while the film portrays a plow operator battling a traditional Montreal snow storm, an almost snowless winter meant that Carle had to film sporadically over 18 months.
The film would go on to win first prize in the feature films category at the Festival of Canadian Films, held as part of the 1965 Montreal International Film Festival( more commonly known now as the Montreal World Film Festival).

Question: Which film has the director who died first, Eternal Allegiance or The Merry World of Leopold Z?
Answer: Eternal Allegiance