Serge Rezvani
1928
French painter, writer, singer-songwriter, playwright and novelist (born 1928)
Cyrus Serge Rezvani is a painter, writer, playwright, poet, lyricist, and composer of French nationality, with Iranian and Russian-Jewish heritage. He is known in music under the pseudonym Bassiak. Rezvani has lived in France since early childhood. His best-known song, “Le Tourbillon”, performed by Jeanne Moreau in François Truffaut’s film Jules and Jim (1962), brought him to fame. Alongside his literary and musical work, Rezvani has been active in visual arts since the 1940s, creating series such as Femme Donna, Effigie, Blanche and Repentirs.