Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais was a French film director whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Night and Fog , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.

Resnais was born in 1922 at Vannes in Brittany, where his father was a pharmacist. An only child, he was often ill with asthma in childhood, which led to his being withdrawn from school and educated at home. He was an eager reader, in a range that extended from classics to comic books, but from the age ofhe became fascinated by films. For his twelfth birthday his parents gave him a Kodak 8mm camera with which he began to make his own short films, including a threeminute version of Fantmas. Around the age of 14, he discovered surrealism and through that an interest in the works of Andr Breton.

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