Question: Which film has the director who died first, The Last Days Of Pompeo or Border Post 58?

The film's title is an allusion to the novel" The Last Days of Pompeii" by Edward Bulwer- Lytton. It refers to a character in contemporary Italy named Pompeo. The Last Days of Pompeo( Italian: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo) is a 1937 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Enrico Viarisio, Roberta Mari and Camillo Pilotto. The film's was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. <SEP> Hasso was born in Frankenthal, Germany. He worked in Sweden, Germany and Italy and for a short time in Finland as a cameraman and film director and he also wrote some of the music and manuscripts for some of the films he made. He learned to play the violin at a very young age and also played harmonica. He started his career in Luxembourg when was 16 years old. Harry Hasso( born Karl Hartnagel, July 24, 1904 – July 11, 1984) was a Swedish actor, cinematographer and film director. He started his own film company at age 18. He made many movies and at least 100 documentary films among them films about his home country and home town. All the documentaries he made have been missing since World War II. Occasionally he was an actor in some of his films. He also worked in a circus as an acrobat and according to himself his act there was to stand on one hand on a bottle that was placed on a chair. He married the Swedish actress Signe Hasso in 1933. In 1943 he married the Swedish film actress Viveca Lindfors. Both were successful actresses in the United States. Viveca worked also in the theatre with great success. Signe Hasso has a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was a famous Hollywood movie star with long career and an author of several books and a musician. Harry remarried twice after that. His last wife was the Swedish actress Britta Hasso( 1936- 2015) who later after their marriage became a journalist in Helsingborg at the newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad. They married in 1961 and remained married until his death in 1984. <SEP> He directed 86 films between 1934 and 1966. Mario Mattòli( 30 November 1898 – 26 February 1980) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. His 1939 film" Defendant, Stand Up!" was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. <SEP> Border Post 58 is a 1951 West German crime film directed by Harry Hasso and starring Hansi Knoteck, Mady Rahl and Elise Aulinger. <SEP> The Last Days of Disco is a 1998 American comedy- drama film written and directed by Whit Stillman, and loosely based on his travels and experiences in various nightclubs in Manhattan, including Studio 54. The film concerns a group of Ivy League and Hampshire College graduates falling in and out of love in the disco scene of New York City, in the" very early 1980s". Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale have the lead roles. " The Last Days of Disco" is the third film( after" Metropolitan"( 1990) and" Barcelona"( 1994)) in what Stillman calls his" Doomed- Bourgeois- in- Love series". The three films are independent of each other except for the cameo appearances of some common characters. According to Stillman, the idea for" Disco" was originally conceived after the shooting of" Barcelona"'s disco scenes. In 2000, Stillman published a novelization of the film, titled" The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards". It won the 2014 Prix Fitzgerald Award. The film was released theatrically in the United States on June 12, 1998; its DVD and video releases followed in 1999. The DVD releases eventually went out of print, and the film was widely unavailable for home video purchase until it was picked up by The Criterion Collection and released in a director- approved special edition on August 25, 2009. Along with" Metropolitan" and" Barcelona", a print of" The Last Days of Disco" resides in the permanent film library of the Museum of Modern Art. <SEP> The Last Days of Pompeii( 1950) is a black and white French- Italian drama film, directed by Marcel L'Herbier" in collaboration with" Paolo Moffa, who was also the director of production. It was adapted from Edward Bulwer- Lytton's novel" The Last Days of Pompeii". The film has also been known as" Sins of Pompeii".