FILM DIRECTOR

Alain Resnais

1922 - 2014

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Alain Resnais (French: [alɛ̃ ʁɛnɛ]; 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 short films including Night and Fog (1956), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain Resnais has received more than 784,916 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Alain Resnais is the 75th most popular film director (up from 84th in 2019), the 598th most popular biography from France (up from 638th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Film Director.

Alain Resnais is most famous for his film "Hiroshima Mon Amour."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alain Resnais ranks 75 out of 2,041. Before him are Theo Angelopoulos, Dziga Vertov, Frank Capra, Christopher Nolan, Ernst Lubitsch, and Jean-Jacques Annaud. After him are Sydney Pollack, William Wyler, Elia Kazan, Terry Gilliam, Franco Zeffirelli, and Costa-Gavras.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Alain Resnais ranks 26. Before him are Aage Bohr, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Imre Lakatos, Philip Larkin, and Vittorio Gassman. After him are Christiaan Barnard, Miguel Muñoz, Stanley Cohen, Renata Tebaldi, Yang Chen-Ning, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Among people deceased in 2014, Alain Resnais ranks 22. Before him are Maximilian Schell, Jacques Le Goff, Paco de Lucía, Lauren Bacall, Shirley Temple, and Virna Lisi. After him are Bob Hoskins, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Richard Attenborough, H. R. Giger, Harold Ramis, and Richard Kiel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Resnais ranks 598 out of 6,770. Before him are Françoise Hardy (1944), Antipope Clement VII (1342), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Lazare Carnot (1753), Anaïs Nin (1903), and Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712). After him are Salome Zourabichvili (1952), Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753), Alfred Jarry (1873), Jacques Charles (1763), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876), and Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Alain Resnais ranks 11. Before him are Roger Vadim (1928), Luc Besson (1959), Jacques Tati (1907), Claude Chabrol (1930), Éric Rohmer (1920), and Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943). After him are William Wyler (1902), Robert Bresson (1901), René Clair (1898), Marcel Carné (1906), Jean-Pierre Melville (1917), and Claude Lelouch (1937).

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