Alexandre Trauner

Known for ArtBorn 1906-08-03Died 1993-12-05Budapest, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Chicago Digest

The Apartment

Witness for the Prosecution

Children of Paradise

The Train Killer

Rififi

The Man Who Would Be King

The Curtain Rises

So Long, Stooge

How to Steal a Million

One, Two, Three

Irma la Douce

Daybreak

Mr. Klein

'Round Midnight

Othello

Love Comedy

Coup de Torchon

The Nun's Story

Port of Shadows

Hatred

Goodbye Again

Don Giovanni

Kiss Me, Stupid

Hôtel du Nord

Reunion

Love in the Afternoon

Gates of the Night

The Bengali Night

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Juliette, or Key of Dreams

Uptight

Fedora

The Night of the Generals

Summer Light

Subway

Bizarre, Bizarre

Stormy Waters

A Flea in Her Ear

Paris Blues

Paris mange son pain

L'Âge d'or

Once More, with Feeling!

Land of the Pharaohs

The Green Glove

Plucking the Daisy

Sophie's Misfortune

The Trout