Marcel Carné (August 18, 1906 – October 31, 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), The Devil's Envoys (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945), the latter of which is often cited as one of the greatest films of all time.