Question: Which film has the director born earlier, The Barkleys Of Broadway or Waiting For Happiness?

Abderrahmane Sissako( born 13 October 1961) is a Mauritanian- born Malian film director and producer. His film" Waiting for Happiness Heremakono") was screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival official selection under Un Certain Regard, winning the FIPRESCI Prize. His 2007 film" Bamako" received much attention. Sissako's themes include globalisation, exile and the displacement of people. His 2014 film" Timbuktu" was selected to compete for the Palme d' Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. <SEP> Charles Walters( November 17, 1911 – August 13, 1982) was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies from the 1940s to the 1960s. <SEP> Main characters are a student, who has returned to his home in Nouadhibou, an electrician and his child apprentice, and the local women. The film is characterized by a succession of scenes of the daily life of the characters which are unique to their particular African and Arab cultures, while borrowing from tropes of Tayeb Saleh's Season of Migration to the North( موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال). The viewer must interpret the scenes without much help from narrator or plot, while the structure of the film hangs on a series of mundane but visually arresting moments, many of which are repeated in other works in Abderrahmane Sissako's opus, including scenes at a barber shop and a photo booth, also present in his earlier La Vie Sur Terre and later Timbuktu. The film presents typical Mauritanian moments of beauty, struggle, alienation, and humor, which are experienced by groups socially divided from each other, such as Bidhan women drinking tea and gossiping, West African migrants passing through Mauritania to get to Europe( and finding an unsuccessful comrade washed ashore). The young protagonist who has returned interacts with all of these groups as an outsider, as he struggles to remember even his own Hassaniya Arabic dialect, but prefers instead French. Many of the themes and characters presage Sissako's 2014 film Timbuktu, and both explore liminal Sahel identities authentically situated in everyday life. Waiting for Happiness premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. Waiting for Happiness( original title: Heremakono) is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. <SEP> For Happiness is a 1917 Russian drama film directed by Yevgeny Bauer. <SEP> The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 Technicolor musical film from the Arthur Freed unit at Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart. Directed by Charles Walters, the screenplay is by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Sidney Sheldon, the songs are by Harry Warren( music) and Ira Gershwin( lyrics) with the addition of" They Ca n't Take That Away from Me" by George and Ira Gershwin, and the choreography was created by Robert Alton and Hermes Pan. Also featured in the cast were Oscar Levant, Billie Burke, Jacques François and Gale Robbins. Rogers came in as a last minute replacement for Judy Garland, whose frequent absences due to a dependency on prescription medication cost her the role. This turned out to be the last film that Astaire and Rogers made together, and their only film together in color. <SEP> Carefree is a 1938 musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. With a plot similar to screwball comedies of the period," Carefree" is the shortest of the Astaire- Rogers films, featuring only four musical numbers. " Carefree" is often remembered as the film in which Astaire and Rogers shared a long on- screen kiss at the conclusion of their dance to" I Used to Be Color Blind," all previous kisses having been either quick pecks or simply implied. " Carefree" was a reunion for the team of Astaire and Rogers after a brief hiatus following" Shall We Dance" and six other previous RKO pictures. The next film in the series," The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle"( 1939), would be their final RKO film together, although they would reunite in 1949 for MGM's" The Barkleys of Broadway".