Question: Which film whose director is younger, The Back Of Beyond or Many Waters (Film)?

John Heyer spent the majority of his career producing and/or directing sponsored documentaries, and was active from the 1930s until his death. His most successful film was "The Back of Beyond" (1954), but many of his films garnered awards at festivals around the world. He was committed to the whole process of filmmaking from the initial research phase to distribution and exhibition. While he was grounded in the British documentary tradition, particularly during his years at the Australian National Film Board working under Ralph Foster and Stanley Hawes, he developed his own style noted for its lyrical quality. Heyer was an active participant in the documentary film movement in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s: he was among the first producers employed by the Australian National Film Board, was head of the Shell Film Unit in Australia, and was President of the Sydney Film Society and on the committee which organised the first Sydney Film Festival. He moved to England in 1956 where he continued to make films for Shell, and then through his own company. While he died in England, he maintained contact with Australia throughout his life, producing films in both countries. John Whitefoord Heyer (14 September 1916 – 19 June 2001) was an Australian documentary filmmaker, who is often described as the father of Australian documentary film. <SEP> Many Waters is a 1931 British romance film directed by Milton Rosmer and starring Lillian Hall- Davis, Arthur Margetson and Elizabeth Allan. It was based on a play by Leon M. Lion. An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth. It was the last film of actress Lillian Hall- Davis, a star of the silent era, who committed suicide in 1933. <SEP> In terms of breadth of distribution, awards garnered, and critical response, it is Heyer's most successful film. It is also, arguably, Australia's most successful documentary: in 2006 it was included in a book titled" 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema", with Bill Caske writing that it is" perhaps our[ Australia's] national cinema's most well known best kept secret". The aim of the film, as requested by the Shell Company, was to associate Shell with the essence of Australia, with Australianism. The Back of Beyond( 1954) is a feature- length award- winning Australian documentary film produced and directed by John Heyer for the Shell Film Unit. Heyer took as his central motif the fortnightly journey made by mailman Tom Kruse, along the remote Birdsville Track from Marree, in South Australia, to Birdsville, in southwest Queensland. In 1957, Heyer wrote that this film, when viewed with Francis Birtles' earlier" In the Track of Burke and Wills"( 1916)," clearly suggest[ s] that the true image of Australia is, and always has been, the image of Man against Nature". The film brought Tom Kruse to public notice, and resulted in his being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire( MBE) on 1 January 1955. <SEP> La Bestia humana is a 1957 Argentine film whose story is based on the novel" La Bête Humaine" by the French writer Émile Zola. <SEP> Esmond Gerald" Tom" Kruse MBE( 28 August 1914 – 30 June 2011) was a former mail carrier on the Birdsville Track in the border area between South Australia and Queensland. He became known as the result of John Heyer's 1954 film" The Back of Beyond", and in the year after the film's release, in the 1955 New Year Honours, Kruse was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire( MBE) for" services to the community in the outback". <SEP> He made his screen debut in "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" (1915) and continued to act in theatre, film and television until 1956. Milton Rosmer (4 November 1881 – 7 December 1971) was a British actor, film director and screenwriter. In 1926 he directed his first film "The Woman Juror" and went on to direct another 16 films between 1926 and 1938. He died in Chesham, Buckinghamshire in 1971.