Question: Which film whose director was born first, Window To Paris or Murder At The Vanities?

<P0-S0> Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. <SEP> <P1-S0> Murder at the Vanities is a 1934 American Pre- Code musical film based on the 1933 Broadway show with music by Victor Young. <P1-S1> It was released by Paramount Pictures. <P1-S2> It was directed by Mitchell Leisen, stars Victor McLaglen, Carl Brisson, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Gertrude Michael, Toby Wing, and Jessie Ralph. <P1-S3> Duke Ellington and his Orchestra are featured in the elaborate finale number. <P1-S4> The film is primarily a musical, based on Earl Carroll's long- running Broadway revue" Earl Carroll's Vanities", combined with a murder mystery. <P1-S5> Songs featured in the film by Arthur Johnston and Sam Coslow include" Cocktails for Two" sung by Brisson," Sweet Marijuana" sung by Michael," Where Do They Come From( and Where Do They Go)" sung by Carlisle, and" Ebony Rhapsody" by Ellington. <P1-S6> In the film, Lucille Ball, Ann Sheridan, and Virginia Davis had small roles as chorines. <P1-S7> It was released on DVD( as part of a six disc set entitled" Pre- Code Hollywood Collection") on April 7, 2009. <SEP> <P2-S0> Carl Brisson( 24 December 1893 – 25 September 1958), born Carl Frederik Ejnar Pedersen, was a Danish film actor and singer. <P2-S1> He appeared in thirteen films between 1918 and 1935, including two silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. <P2-S2> In the 1934 film" Murder at the Vanities", he introduced the popular song" Cocktails for Two". <SEP> <P3-S0> Yuri Mamin( born 8 May 1946) is a Soviet and Russian film director, stage director, screenwriter, composer, author and television host, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation. <P3-S1> His" Window to Paris"( 1993) remains one of the most popular movies in Russia. <P3-S2> His Buddhist- themed film" Do n't Think About White Monkeys"( 2008) is popular among the Russian noncomformist youth, including punks and rockers. <P3-S3> The award was presented by Charlie Chaplin's widow, Oona Chaplin, at the festival marking 100 years since the birth of the great comedian. <P3-S4> The festival was held in the Swiss city of Vevey, where Chaplin was buried. <P3-S5> Yuri Mamin began his directing career under the communist regime. <P3-S6> He was never a communist and was always opposed to the oppressive power of the Communist Party. <P3-S7> Because of this, he could not create his films until the beginning of Perestroika in 1985 and Mikhail Gorbachev's arrival to power. <P3-S8> The Gorbachev period ended in 1991 and Yuri Mamin again became a persona non grata for the criminal tycoons who almost immediately took over all the leading positions in Russian cinema and mass media. <P3-S9> From the early 1990s, a group of official Russian film critics, controlled by the regime, began a period of notorious denigration of the film director and his art. <P3-S10> Against this background, Mamin's films won the love of audiences throughout the nation. <P3-S11> Almost all of his films received numerous grand prizes and other awards. <P3-S12> The official state- supported Russian Encyclopedia of National Cinema, edited by L. Arkus, contains offensive critical reviews of Mamin's films, while acknowledging his talent and important place in the history of Russian cinematography. <SEP> <P4-S0> Mitchell Leisen( October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American director, art director, and costume designer. <SEP> <P5-S0> Window to Paris is a 1993 Russian drama film directed by Yuri Mamin. <P5-S1> Some French friends suggested that Yuri Mamin should make a joint Russian- French film, which led to the creation of the 1993 film" Window to Paris" or" Salade Russe". <P5-S2> The film is a grotesque prediction of the effect of fall of the Iron Curtain on the life in Europe, about the invasion of Russian demoralized businessmen and the humiliation of the intelligentsia in Russia. <P5-S3> At that time, this was a rather rare demonstration of patriotism; the authors of the film and all its actors were quite sincere. <P5-S4> The name of the fund," Fountain", is from Mamin's preceding film that won the grand prize at a French film festival, which had been organized under the patronage of Madame Danielle Mitterrand, the wife of the French then- president François Mitterrand. <P5-S5> The comedy" Window to Paris" attained such success in France and at the Berlin Film Festival that Michael Barker, the co-president of the American distribution company Sony Pictures Classics, arranged for the film to be released in the United States, and twice requested Goskino to submit the film" Window to Paris" for the 1994 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. <P5-S6> Barker wrote:" The response to the film at screenings in Los Angeles and New York has been terrific with both the critics and the audiences. <P5-S7> However, at that time Nikita Mikhalkov, with his freshly finished film" Burnt by the Sun", greatly wished to be considered for the Oscar. <P5-S8> After the chairman of the Russian Oscar Committee, Elem Klimov, did not agree to submit Mikhalkov ’s film to the competition, Mikhalkov demonstrated his outstanding skills in behind- the- scenes intrigues. <P5-S9> Elem Klimov was immediately replaced by Mikhalkov's brother, Andrey Konchalovsky, who agreed to send the film" Burnt by the Sun" to the United States. <P5-S10> Thus, Mamin was deprived of the opportunity to win the Oscar. <P5-S11> The members of the Russian Oscar Committee remain under the control of Nikita Mikhalkov, who shapes the politics of Russian cinematography. <P5-S12> Nikita Mikhalkov is currently Vladimir Putin's cinematography adviser. <P5-S13> The idea of a mystical window, a dimensional portal between Russia and Paris, came to the mind of the Moscow screenwriter Felix Mironer long before Gorbachev's Perestroika. <P5-S14> He told this idea to the filmmaker Aleksey German, who sold it 20 years later to Arkady Tigai, Yuri Mamin' co-author, for a bottle of cognac.