Question: Which film has the director died first, Neel Akasher Neechey or The Left Hand Of God?

Set in the background of the last days of the British Raj in Calcutta, the film explores the lives of a number of characters, including the platonic relationship between an immigrant Chinese wage worker, Wang Lu, and the main female character called Basanti. Neel Akasher Neechey( Bengali: নীল আকাশের নীচে" Nil akasher nicheUnder the Blue Sky") is a 1958 Bengali language film directed by Mrinal Sen and produced by Hemanta Mukherjee, starring Kali Bannerjee, Manju Dey, Bikash Roy and others. The film had overt political overtones and was the first film to be banned by the Government of India. The ban was effective for two months. <SEP> Sen directed films primarily in Bengali and Hindi. Along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, he pioneered the New Wave cinema in India. Sen was an ardent Marxist. His earlier films are characterized by their left- leaning, often Marxist approaches to Indian society. Sen won the National Film Awards 18 times, next only to Ray. He was made the Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1985. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2008 and the Order of Friendship in 2005. The same year, he was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award his contribution to Indian cinema. He is considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He is the only Indian filmmaker along with Satyajit Ray whose films have been awarded at the big three film festivals namely the Cannes film festival, Venice Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival. Mrinal Sen( also spelled" Mrinal Shen"; 14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was an Indian filmmaker and a nominated Member of the Indian parliament. <SEP> The Left Hand of God is a 1955 drama film made by 20th Century Fox. Set at a small American mission in China in 1947, at a time of civil war, it stars Humphrey Bogart masquerading as a Catholic priest and Gene Tierney in the role of a nurse, with a supporting cast including Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead, E. G. Marshall, and Carl Benton Reid. While playing Anne Scott, Tierney became ill. Bogart had a personal experience as he was close to a sister who suffered from mental illness, so during the production, he fed Tierney her lines and encouraged her to seek help. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Buddy Adler, from a screenplay by Alfred Hayes, based on the novel" The Left Hand of God", by William Edmund Barrett. <SEP> Le masque de la Méduse is a 2009 fantasy horror film directed by Jean Rollin. The film is a modern-day telling of the Greek mythological tale of the Gorgon and was inspired by the 1964 classic Hammer Horror film of the same name and the 1981 cult classic" Clash of the Titans". It was Rollin's final film, as the director died in 2010. <SEP> He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for" Crossfire"( 1947). In 1947, he was named as one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who refused to testify to the House Un- American Activities Committee( HUAC) in their investigations during the McCarthy- era' Red scare'. They all served time in prison for contempt of Congress. Edward Dmytryk( September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian- born American film director. In 1951, however, Dmytryk did testify to HUAC and rehabilitated his career. First hired again by independent producer Stanley Kramer in 1952, Dmytryk is likely best known for directing" The Caine Mutiny"( 1954), a critical and commercial success. The second- highest grossing film of the year, it was nominated for Best Picture and several other awards at the 1955 Oscars. Dmytryk was nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. <SEP> Neel Akasher Niche is a 1969 Bangladeshi film starring Razzak and Kabari opposite him. The film was directed by Narayan Ghosh Mita. It also stars Rozi Samad and Anwar Hossain.