Life Is a Dream (1986 film)
Life is a Dream is a 1987 French art film written and directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.
It is an oneiric, metafictional," neo- Baroque" work about the Chilean dictatorship, exile, dream, cinema and mnemonics.
It was inspired by Frances A. Yates' book" The Art of Memory"( 1966) and features characters and scenes from" Life Is a Dream"( 1635), a Spanish Golden Age play Ruiz had directed at the Avignon Festival in 1986, in addition to pastiches of B-movies and serials of the 1930s and 1940s.
Lupu Pick
Lupu Pick
( 2 January 1886 – 7 March 1931) was a German actor, film director, producer and screenwriter of the silent era.
He appeared in 50 films between 1910 and 1928.
Born in Romania, Pick's father was a Jewish Austrian, his mother, of Romanian origin.
He began as a stage actor in Hamburg, Flensburg and Berlin before 1910.
In 1917 he founded the film company Rex- Film AG.
He served on the board of the Film Association of Industrialists(" Vorstand des Verbandes der Filmindustriellen"), SPIO and the Film Directors Association of Germany(" Verbandes der Filmregisseure Deutschlands") and worked intensively to establish the union- based umbrella organization of Filmmakers in Germany(" Filmschaffenden Deutschlands")( Dacho).
He was the organization's first chairman.
Pick was married to actress Edith Posca.
The Street Song
The Street Song or The Streetsweeper( German: Gassenhauer) is a 1931 German musical crime film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Ina Albrecht, Ernst Busch and Albert Hoermann.
It is a Berlin- set film, with sets designed by art director Robert Neppach.
The film was a considerable public success and one of its songs," Marie, Marie," by the Comedian Harmonists, became a hit record.
A separate French- language version," The Four Vagabonds", was also made.
Desmond Ryan
Desmond Ryan( 1893– 1964) was an Irish author, historian, and in his earlier life a revolutionary in Sinn Féin.
Robert Wiene
Robert Wiene (27 April 1873 – 17 July 1938) was a film director of the silent era of German cinema.
He is particularly known for directing the German silent film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and a succession of other expressionist films.
Wiene also directed a variety of other films of varying styles and genres.
Following the Nazi rise to power in Germany, Wiene, who was of Jewish descent, fled into exile.
The Flame of the Yukon (1926 film)
The Flame of the Yukon( 1926) is a silent Northwoods adventure- drama film starring Seena Owen and directed by George Melford.
The film is based on a story by Monte Katterjohn and was distributed by Cecil DeMille's PDC( Producers Distributing Corporation).
The film is a remake of a 1917 film that had starred Dorothy Dalton.
The 1917 film survives at the Library of Congress.
The 1926 film, once thought to be lost, is preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Patrie (1946 film)
Patrie is a 1946 French drama film directed by Louis Daquin.
It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
Like the 1917 film it is based on the play by Victorien Sardou.
Vera Allinson
Vera Allinson( 1899 – 1971) was a British screenwriter.
She wrote the screenplay for several films made by the American director Bernard Vorhaus at Twickenham Studios, including" Street Song".
Street Song (film)
Street Song is a 1935 British musical film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring John Garrick, René Ray and Wally Patch.
Life Is a Dream (1917 film)
Life Is a Dream( German: Das Leben ein Traum) is a 1917 German silent drama film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Emil Jannings, Bruno Decarli and Maria Fein.
A young aristocrat meets a man and marries him, but soon discovers he is a monster.
After his death she grows increasingly mad, until a revolutionary new cure is attempted which makes her believe that the whole episode was simply a dream.

Question: Which film has the director who died earlier, Life Is A Dream (1917 Film) or The Street Song?
Answer: The Street Song