Alain Resnais: Acclaimed French Filmmaker, Is Dead

Italy – 2006 Venice Film Festival – “Private Fears in Public Places”

Alain Resnais (3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director 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

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Filmography

Resnais’ career spanned nine decades: