Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922) is a famous French film director, perhaps best known for his masterpieces Hiroshima mon amour (1959), written by Marguerite Duras, and Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) (1961), written by the French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, but also recognised for his other moving and challenging work, such as the pre-eminent Holocaust documentary Night and Fog (1955).
Biography
He was born in Vannes, France. He married Florence Malraux, the only daughter of French statesman André Malraux and his first wife, Clara Goldschmidt. She often worked on Resnais's films.
Awards
- Prix Jean Vigo in 1954 and 1956
Filmography
- Pas sur la bouche (2003)
- On connaît la chanson (1997)
- Smoking (1993)
- No Smoking (1993)
- Gershwin (1992)
- Contre l'oubli (1991)
- I Want to Go Home (1989)
- Mélo (1986)
- L'amour à mort (1984)
- La vie est un roman (1983)
- Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
- Providence (1977)
- Stavisky... (1974)
- L'an 01 (1973) (New York scenes)
- Cinétracts (1968)
- Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
- Loin du Vietnam (1967)
- La guerre est finie (1966)
- Muriel (1963)
- L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961)
- Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
- Le chant du Styrène (1958)
- Le mystère de l'atelier quinze (1957)
- Toute la mémoire du monde (1956)
- Night and Fog (1955)
- Les statues meurent aussi (1953)
- Pictura (1952)
- Gauguin (1950)
- Guernica (1950/I)
- Châteaux de France (1948)
- Les jardins de Paris (1948)
- Malfray (1948)
- Van Gogh (1948)
- L'alcool tue (1947) (as Alzin Rezarail)
- La bague (1947)
- Journée naturelle (1947)
- Le lait Nestlé (1947)
- Portrait d'Henri Goetz (1947)
- Van Gogh (1947)
- Visite à César Doméla (1947)
- Visite à Félix Labisse (1947)
- Visite à Hans Hartnung (1947)
- Visite à Lucien Coutaud (1947)
- Visite à Oscar Dominguez (1947)
- Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (1946)
- Schéma d'une identification (1946)
- L'aventure de Guy (1936)
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