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This director wrote and illustrated the preface to a translation of his favorite novel, The Little Prince. The title character of a film by this director listens to a woman sing the revolutionary French ballad “Le Temps des cerises” (“luh tawm day say-REEZ”) at the Hotel Adriano. This director created a character whose love of The Magic Mountain inspires him to call his German friend “Hans Castorp.” This director was inspired by a Roald Dahl story for a flashback in which the title character sees a stream of thousands of (*) aircraft flying in formation above his own plane. This filmmaker’s childhood as the son of aircraft manufacturers inspired a film whose protagonist idolizes Giovanni Caproni, an engineer whose company created the aircraft that names this director’s production company. This director created a sunglasses-wearing ace pilot who declares, “I’d rather be a pig (10[1])than a fascist.” For 10 points, name this director of The Wind Rises and Porco Rosso. ■END■

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