Alain Resnais

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-06-03 (92 years old)

Deathday

2014-03-01

Place of Birth

Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France

Alain Resnais

Biography

Alain Resnais (3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog (1955), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps. Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and Muriel (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past. These films were contemp...

Acting

1942

The Devil's Envoys

as Extra (uncredited)

2022

Alain Resnais, l'audacieux

as Self (archive footage)

1978

May Days

as Self

2022

Bacri, comme un air de famille

as Self (archive footage)

1963

The Lovely Month of May

as Self (uncredited)

2007

Propos d'Alain Resnais

as Self (voice)

2019

In the Ears of Alain Resnais

as Self (archive footage)

1962

Sign of the Lion

as Un Consommateur (uncredited)

Production

1959

Night and Fog

as Director

1961

1997

Same Old Song

as Director

1959

1966

The War Is Over

as Director

1968

1984

Love Unto Death

as Director

1974

Stavisky...

as Director

1956

1993

2009

Wild Grass

as Director

1983

1953

Statues Also Die

as Director

1957

1980

1989

1991

Against Oblivion

as Director

2003

Not on the Lips

as Director

1956

1977

Providence

as Director

1986

Mélo

as Director

1951

Guernica

as Director

2004

1949

Paul Gauguin

as Director

1965

1973

The Year 01

as Co-Director

2014

Life of Riley

as Director

1948

Van Gogh

as Director

1948

Paris 1900

as Assistant Director

1948

Paris 1900

as Editor

1951

Pictura

as Director

1968

Cinétracts

as Director

1953

1986

Mélo

as Writer

1958

Broadway by Light

as Technical Advisor

1959

Night and Fog

as Editor

1947

1957

1967

Far from Vietnam

as Director

1993

Gershwin

as Director

1947

1993

No Smoking

as Director

1993

Smoking

as Director

1948

Paris 1900

as Assistant Production Coordinator

1948

Paris 1900

as Researcher

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