Claude Chabrol
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol( 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave(" nouvelle vague") group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s.
Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean- Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine" Cahiers du cinéma" before beginning his career as a film maker.
Chabrol's career began with" Le Beau Serge"( 1958), inspired by Hitchcock's" Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943).
Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity.
This is especially apparent in" Les Biches"( 1968)," La Femme infidèle"( 1969), and" Le Boucher"( 1970) – all featuring Stéphane Audran, who was his wife at the time.
Sometimes characterized as a" mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half- century career.
In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in" Violette Nozière".
On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful" Madame Bovary"( 1991) and" La Cérémonie"( 1996).
Film critic John Russell Taylor has stated that" there are few directors whose films are more difficult to explain or evoke on paper, if only because so much of the overall effect turns on Chabrol's sheer hedonistic relish for the medium ...
Some of his films become almost private jokes, made to amuse himself."
James Monaco has called Chabrol" the craftsman par excellence of the New Wave, and his variations upon a theme give us an understanding of the explicitness and precision of the language of the film that we do n't get from the more varied experiments in genre of Truffaut or Godard."
Paul Martin (director)
Paul Martin (8 February 1899 – 26 January 1967) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter who worked for many years in the German film industry.
He directed 60 films between 1932 and 1967.
He was romantically involved with the film star Lilian Harvey and directed her in a number of films until he left her in 1938 for the actress Frauke Lauterbach.
They made one final film "Woman at the Wheel" together during the filming of which their relationship remained cold.
Joshua Sinclair
Joshua Sinclair( born May 7, 1953) is an American writer, producer, actor and director born in New York City.
Yolonda Ross
Yolonda Ross is an American character actress, writer and director born (31 July 1974).
Sepideh Farsi
Sepideh Farsi is an Iranian film director, born in Tehran in 1965.
Fred Roy Krug
Fred R. Krug is an American film and television producer- director born in Bern, Switzerland.
Claude Weisz
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Jacques Décombe
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Dr. M (film)
Dr. M. is a 1990 crime film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol.
The film is loosely based on the plot of Fritz Lang's" Dr. Mabuse the Gambler", which was in turn based on" Mabuse der Spieler" by Norbert Jacques.
Seven Slaps
Seven Slaps( German: Sieben Ohrfeigen) is a 1937 German comedy film directed by Paul Martin and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Alfred Abel.
Like the earlier Lucky Kids, which had the same director and stars, it was an attempt to create a German version of screwball comedy.
While the previous film had a New York setting, this takes place in London.
The film's sets were designed by Erich Kettelhut.
It was loosely remade in 1970 as" Slap in the Face".

Question: Which film has the director born earlier, Dr. M (Film) or Seven Slaps?
Answer: Seven Slaps