Alain Resnais

Regie, Schnitt, Darsteller, Autor

3. Juni 1922 — 1. März 2014 (91 Jahre)
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 contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave (la nouvelle vague), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. He had closer links to the "Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and an interest in left-wing politics. He also established a regular practice of working on his films in collaboration with writers previously unconnected with the cinema such as Jean Cayrol, Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jorge Semprún and Jacques Sternberg.

In later films, Resnais moved away from the overtly political topics of some previous works and developed his interests in an interaction between cinema and other cultural forms, including theatre, music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of plays by Alan Ayckbourn, Henri Bernstein and Jean Anouilh, as well as films featuring various kinds of popular song.

His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives. Throughout his career, he won many awards from international film festivals and academies.

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Bekannt aus

  • Hiroshima, mon amour
    Hiroshima, mon amour1959
  • Letztes Jahr in Marienbad
    Letztes Jahr in Marienbad1961
  • Nacht und Nebel
    Nacht und Nebel1956
  • Mein Onkel aus Amerika
    Mein Onkel aus Amerika1980
  • Herzen
    Herzen2006
  • Muriel oder Die Zeit der Wiederkehr
    Muriel oder Die Zeit der Wiederkehr1963
  • Vorsicht Sehnsucht
    Vorsicht Sehnsucht2009
  • Das Leben ist ein Chanson
    Das Leben ist ein Chanson1997
  • Providence
    Providence1977
  • Ich liebe dich, ich liebe dich
    Ich liebe dich, ich liebe dich1968
  • Smoking/No Smoking
    Smoking/No Smoking1993
  • Stavisky...
    Stavisky...1974
  • Aimer, boire et chanter
    Aimer, boire et chanter2014
  • Der Krieg ist vorbei
    Der Krieg ist vorbei1966
  • Ihr werdet euch noch wundern
    Ihr werdet euch noch wundern2012
  • Mélo
    Mélo1986
  • Nicht auf den Mund
    Nicht auf den Mund2003
  • I Want to Go Home
    I Want to Go Home1989
  • Alles Gedächtnis der Welt
    Alles Gedächtnis der Welt1956
  • Das Leben ist ein Roman
    Das Leben ist ein Roman1983

Filmografie

2026
2022
Alain Resnais, l'audacieux · as Self (archive Footage)
2022
Bacri, comme un air de famille · as Self (archive Footage)
2020
2018
2015
The Oscars · as Self - Director (in Memoriam)
2004
2003
2003
imagine... · as Self - Interviewee
1995
Metropolis · as Self
1982
Cinéma cinémas · as Self
1978
May Days · as Self
1976
César Awards · as Self - Winner
1970
Langlois · as Self
1963
Le joli mai · as Self (uncredited)
1956
Cinépanorama · as Self

2022
2021
1962
Sign of the Lion · as Un Consommateur (uncredited)
1942
The Devil's Envoys · as Extra (uncredited)

2014
Life of Riley · as Adaptation
2009
Wild Grass · as Adaptation
1973
The Year 01 · as Co-Director
1968
I Love You, I Love You · as Collaborating Writer
1947
Paris mil neuf cent · as Assistant Director
1947
Paris mil neuf cent · as Assistant Production Coordinator