Alexandre Trauner
Art
1906-08-03 · Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Alexandre Trauner (born Sándor Trau; 3 August 1906 in Budapest, Hungary – 5 December 1993 in Omonville-la-Petite, France) was a Hungarian film production designer. After studying painting at Hungarian Royal Drawing School, he left the country in 1929, fleeing from the antisemitic government of Admiral Horthy. In Paris, he became the assistant of set designer Lazare Meerson, at the studios in Épinay-sur-Seine working on such films as À nous la liberté (1932) and La Kermesse héroïque (1935). In 1937, he became a chief set designer. Trauner worked with director Marcel Carné for some years on such films as Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes, 1938), Le Jour se lève (1939), and Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945). Trauner worked in hiding on Children of Paradise, which was filmed at the Victorine Studios in Nice during 1943 and 1944 during the Nazi's Occupation of France. He worked with Billy Wilder on eight films between 1958 and 1978, including the sets for The Apartment (1960), on which he made use of false perspective, a characteristic of his work. For his work on this film, he won an Academy Award. He also worked on John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni (1979), and Luc Besson's Subway (1985). In 1980, he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. Source: Article "Alexandre Trauner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
The Rainbow Thief
1994 · Movie
Love Comedy
1989 · Movie
Reunion
1989 · Movie
The Bengali Night
1988 · Movie
'Round Midnight
1986 · Movie
Before Midnight
1986 · Movie
Subway
1985 · Movie
So Long, Stooge
1983 · Movie
The Train Killer
1983 · Movie
The Trout
1982 · Movie
Coup de Torchon
1981 · Movie
Le Roi des cons
1981 · Movie
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
1980 · Movie
Don Giovanni
1979 · Movie
Fedora
1978 · Movie
Regie: Billy Wilder
1978 · Movie
Roads to the South
1978 · Movie
Mr. Klein
1976 · Movie
The Man Who Would Be King
1975 · Movie
Impossible Object
1973 · Movie
Promise at Dawn
1970 · Movie
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 · Movie
Uptight
1968 · Movie
A Flea in Her Ear
1968 · Movie
The Night of the Generals
1967 · Movie
The Birth of Children of Paradise
1967 · Movie
How to Steal a Million
1966 · Movie
Kiss Me, Stupid
1964 · Movie
Behold a Pale Horse
1964 · Movie
Irma la Douce
1963 · Movie
Five Miles to Midnight
1962 · Movie
One, Two, Three
1961 · Movie
Paris Blues
1961 · Movie
Goodbye Again
1961 · Movie
The Apartment
1960 · Movie
Once More, with Feeling!
1960 · Movie
The Great Deception
1959 · Movie
The Nun's Story
1959 · Movie
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958 · Movie
Paris mange son pain
1958 · Movie
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Movie
The Happy Road
1957 · Movie
Love in the Afternoon
1957 · Movie
Plucking the Daisy
1956 · Movie
Land of the Pharaohs
1955 · Movie
Rififi
1955 · Movie
Torticola versus Frankensberg
1952 · Movie
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952 · Movie
The Green Glove
1952 · Movie
Othello
1951 · Movie
Chicago Digest
1951 · Movie
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
1951 · Movie
Mystery Tour
1947 · Movie
Gates of the Night
1946 · Movie
Sophie's Misfortune
1946 · Movie
Children of Paradise
1945 · Movie
Summer Light
1943 · Movie
Stormy Waters
1941 · Movie
Daybreak
1939 · Movie
Hôtel du Nord
1938 · Movie
The Curtain Rises
1938 · Movie
Port of Shadows
1938 · Movie
Hatred
1938 · Movie
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937 · Movie
Zouzou
1934 · Movie
L'Âge d'or
1930 · Movie