Alain Resnais

Directing

1959 — 2014 · 19 films

Lived

3 June 1922 — d. 2014

From

Vannes, Morbihan, Bretagne, France

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.