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Alain Resnais

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He directed 10 different actors in César-nominated performances: Nicole Garcia , Sabine Azéma (4 times), Pierre Arditi (2 times), André Dussollier (2 times), Micheline Presle, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui, Lambert Wilson, Darry Cowl and Isabelle Nanty. Azéma, Arditi (2 times), Dussollier, Bacri, Jaoui and Cowl won Césars for their performances in one of Resnais movies. See more trivia »

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Alain Pierre Marie Jean Georges Resnais
in Vannes, Morbihan, France
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2013 Aimer, boire et chanter (filming)
 
2012 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
 
2009 Wild Grass
 
2006 Private Fears in Public Places
 
2003 Not on the Lips
 
1997 Same Old Song
 
1993 Smoking/No Smoking
 
1992 L'encyclopédie audio-visuelle (TV series documentary)
– Gershwin (1992)
 
1991 Lest We Forget (segment "Pour Esteban Gonzalez Gonzalez, Cuba")
 
1989 I Want to Go Home
 
1986 Mélo
 
1984 Love Unto Death
 
1983 Life Is a Bed of Roses
 
1980 Mon oncle d'Amérique
 
1977 Providence
 
1974 Stavisky...
 
1973 The Year 01 (sequence director "Séquence de New York")
 
1968 Je t'aime je t'aime
 
1968 Cinétracts (documentary) (uncredited)
 
1967 Far from Vietnam (documentary) (segment "Claude Ridder")
 
1966 The War Is Over
 
1963 Muriel, or The Time of Return
 
1961 Last Year at Marienbad
 
1959 Le chant du Styrène (documentary short)
 
1959 Hiroshima, mon amour
 
1957 Le mystère de l'atelier quinze (short)
 
1956 Toute la mémoire du monde (documentary short)
 
1955 Night and Fog (documentary short)
 
1953 Statues also Die (documentary short)
 
1951 Pictura (documentary) (segment "Goya")
 
1950/I Guernica (short)
 
1950 Gauguin (short)
 
1948/II Van Gogh (short)
 
1948 Châteaux de France
 
1948/I Van Gogh (short)
 
1948 Malfray (documentary short)
 
1948 Les jardins de Paris (short)
 
1947 Visite à Oscar Dominguez (documentary short)
 
1947 Visite à Lucien Coutaud
 
1947 Visite à Hans Hartung
 
1947 Visite à César Doméla
 
1947 Visite à Félix Labisse
 
1947 Portrait d'Henri Goetz
 
1947 Le lait Nestlé
 
1947 Journée naturelle
 
1947 La bague
 
1947 L'alcool tue (short) (as Alzin Rezarail)
 
1946 Schéma d'une identification
 
1946 Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire
 
1936 L'aventure de Guy (short)
 
Show ShowEditor (19 titles)
1959 Le chant du Styrène (documentary short)
 
1959 Novembre à Paris (documentary short)
 
1958 Broadway by Light (short)
 
1957 L'oeil du maître
 
1956 Toute la mémoire du monde (documentary short)
 
1955 La Pointe Courte
 
1955 Night and Fog (documentary short) (uncredited)
 
1955 Une visite (short)
 
1953 Aux frontières de l'homme
 
1952 Saint-Tropez, devoir de vacances (documentary short)
 
1950 Gauguin (short)
 
1950/I Guernica (short)
 
1948/II Van Gogh (short)
 
1948 Châteaux de France
 
1948 Jean Effel (TV short)
 
1948/I Van Gogh (short)
 
1947 Paris 1900 (documentary)
 
1947 L'alcool tue (short) (as Alzin Rezarail)
 
1947 Transfo transforme l'énergie du pyrium (short)
 
Show ShowWriter (6 titles)
2013 Aimer, boire et chanter (adaptation / as Alex Reval) (filming)
 
2012 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (adaptation / as Alex Reval)
 
2009 Wild Grass (adaptation / as Alex Reval)
 
1986 Mélo (adaptation)
 
1968 Je t'aime je t'aime (collaborating writer - uncredited)
 
1947 La bague
 
Show ShowCinematographer (4 titles)
1948 Châteaux de France
 
1948 Jean Effel (TV short)
 
1947 L'alcool tue (short) (as Alzin Rezarail)
 
1947 Transfo transforme l'énergie du pyrium (short)
 
Show ShowActor (3 titles)
1997 Quand le chat sourit (TV movie)
 
1959 The Sign of Leo
Un consommateur (uncredited)
 
1942 Les Visiteurs du Soir
Extra (uncredited)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (2 titles)
1958 Broadway by Light (short) (technical advisor)
 
1947 Paris 1900 (documentary) (researcher - uncredited)
 
Show ShowCamera and Electrical Department (1 title)
1948 Châteaux de France (camera operator)
 
1947 Paris 1900 (documentary) (assistant director)
 
Show ShowProduction Manager (1 title)
1947 Paris 1900 (documentary) (assistant production supervisor)
 
Show ShowProducer (1 title)
1947 La bague (producer)
 
Show ShowSelf (10 titles)
2012 Cinema 3 (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 24 May 2012 (2012) … Himself
 
2011 Imagine (TV series)
Himself - Interviewee
– Alan Ayckbourn: Greetings from Scarbrough (2011) … Himself - Interviewee (voice)
 
2009 Cannes Film Festival 2009 (TV movie)
Himself
 
1978-2007 La nuit des Césars (TV series documentary)
Himself / Himself - César du meilleur film / Himself - César du meilleur réalisateur / …
– 32ème nuit des Césars (2007) … Himself
– La 23ème nuit des Césars (1998) … Himself - César du meilleur film
– 19ème nuit des Césars (1994) … Himself - César du meilleur réalisteur - César du meilleur film
– 6ème nuit des Césars (1981) … Himself
– 3ème nuit des Césars (1978) … Himself - César du meilleur réalisateur
 
1997 L'atelier d'Alain Resnais (TV documentary)
Himself (voice)
 
1980 Une approche d'Alain Resnais, révolutionnaire discret (TV documentary)
Himself (voice)
 
1979 Fantômas, je pense à vous! (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1978 Grands soirs & petits matins (documentary)
Himself
 
1974 Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (TV series documentary)
Himself
 
1961 Cinépanorama (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode dated 7 October 1961 (1961) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (6 titles)
2012 Cinéphiles de notre temps (TV series documentary)
 
2010-2012 Empreintes (TV series documentary)
 
2009 Dans le labyrinthe de Marienbad (video documentary short)
 
2004 Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque (documentary)
Himself
 
2003 Cinema Sex Politics: Bertolucci Makes 'The Dreamers' (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1985 Vivement Truffaut (TV documentary)
Himself
 

Related Videos

Mon oncle d'Amérique -- A trio of people are presented as “case histories” by a lecturer -- and we see them not only in their work environments, but also in terms of the cinematic role models that have helped shape their self-images. Wild Grass -- A wallet lost and found opens the door to romantic adventure for Georges and Marguerite. Private Fears in Public Places -- In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
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Personal Details

Other Works:

Volume of photos: "Réperages", 1973.

Publicity Listings:

8 Print Biographies  | 1 Interview  | 5 Articles  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Alex Reval | Alzin Rezarail

Height:

6' 3¼" (1.91 m)
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Did You Know?

Trivia:

He directed 10 different actors in César-nominated performances: Nicole Garcia , Sabine Azéma (4 times), Pierre Arditi (2 times), André Dussollier (2 times), Micheline Presle, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui, Lambert Wilson, Darry Cowl and Isabelle Nanty. Azéma, Arditi (2 times), Dussollier, Bacri, Jaoui and Cowl won Césars for their performances in one of Resnais movies. See more »

Nickname:

The Sphinx See more »

Star Sign:

Gemini