Claude Mulot
Claude Mulot( 1942–1986) was a French screenwriter and film director who mainly specialized in adult films but also made various attempts in other genres like horror films(" The Blood Rose"), comedies(" Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent") or thrillers(" Le Couteau sous la gorge").
He accidentally drowned at the early age of 44 while his screenplay" On se calme et on boit frais à Saint- Tropez" was being shot by Max Pécas in Saint- Tropez in 1986.
Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin( 17 May 190415 November 1976) was a French actor and sometime singer.
Considered a key figure in French cinema, he starred in several classic films including" Pépé le Moko"( 1937)," La grande illusion"( 1937)," Le Quai des brumes"( 1938)," La bête humaine"( 1938)," Le jour se lève"( 1939), and" Le plaisir"( 1952).
Gabin was made a member of the Légion d'honneur in recognition of the important role he played in French cinema.
René Le Hénaff
René Le Hénaff( 24 April 1901 – 5 January 2005) was a French film editor and director.
As a film editor he collaborated with directors Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Géza von Radványi among others.
His three films with Carné in the late 1930s —" Port of Shadow s Hôtel du Nord", and" Le Jour Se Lève" — are widely admired examples of poetic realism.
He also directed films from 1935 to 1950.
Perhaps the best- known is" Colonel Chabert"( 1943), which was a film adaptation of a famous novella by Honoré de Balzac.
Le Hénaff retired from filmmaking in 1968.
Le Jour Se Lève
Le jour se lève(" The day rises"; also known as Daybreak) is a 1939 French film directed by Marcel Carné and written by Jacques Prévert, based on a story by Jacques Viot.
It is considered one of the principal examples of the French film movement known as poetic realism.
In 1952, it was included in the first" Sight and Sound" top ten greatest films list.
Esther Galil
Esther Galil( born May 28, 1945) is a Morocco- born, Los Angeles- based French and Israeli singer and painter.
Her song" Le jour se lève" was Number 1 in France for four weeks in September 1971.
In December 1972, Galil noted with regret the excessive European influence on the culture of Brazil.
Speed Demon (1932 film)
Speed Demon is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman and starring William Collier Jr.
D. Ross Lederman
David Ross Lederman (December 12, 1894 – August 24, 1972) was an American film director noted for his Western/action/adventure films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Starting out as an extra in Mack Sennett's Keystone Cops series, Lederman worked his way through the ranks of film production, and first made his mark as a second-unit director.
He directed several B-Western serials in the early 1930s, such as "Two-Fisted Law" and "Texas Cyclone" both 1932, in which he worked with Tim McCoy and a young John Wayne.
Becoming a full feature director in the late 1930s, Lederman specialized in action films and especially westerns, continuing to produce films with McCoy at Columbia Pictures.
Jacqueline Laurent
Jacqueline Laurent( 6 August 1918 – 18 December 2009) was a French film actress.
She starred with Jean Gabin in Marcel Carné's" Le Jour se Leve"( 1939).
The Long Night (film)
The Long Night is a 1947 American film noir crime- drama directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by RKO Pictures.
It is a remake of" Le Jour Se Lève"( 1939) by Marcel Carné.
The drama stars Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price and Ann Dvorak.
The title of the original French film is an idiom which translates roughly as" dawn is breaking".
" The Long Night" was the first screen appearance by character actress Barbara Bel Geddes and it served as a springboard for Bel Geddes's career.
RKO signed Bel Geddes to a seven- year contract.
Marcel Carné
Marcel Albert Carné( 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director.
A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include" Port of Shadows"( 1938)," Le Jour Se Lève"( 1939)," The Devil's Envoys"( 1942) and" Children of Paradise"( 1945), the last of which has been cited as one of the greatest films of all time.

Question: Do both directors of films Le Jour Se Lève and Speed Demon (1932 Film) share the same nationality?
Answer: no