Alexandre Trauner
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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.
Known for
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Production Design
Irma la Douce (1963)
Production Design
Subway (1985)
Production Design
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Production Design
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Production Design
Children of Paradise (1945)
Production Design
The Night of the Generals (1967)
Production Design
'Round Midnight (1986)
Production Design
L'Âge d'or (1930)
Production Design
Othello (1951)
Production Design
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Production Design
Fedora (1978)
Production Design
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Production Design
Rififi (1955)
Production Design
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
Production Design
Stormy Waters (1941)
Production Design
Hôtel du Nord (1938)
Production Design
Goodbye Again (1961)
Production Design
Port of Shadows (1938)
Production Design
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
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Coup de Torchon (1981)
Production Design
Reunion (1989)
Production Design
Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
Production Design
Don Giovanni (1979)
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Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Production Design
Hatred (1938)
Production Design
So Long, Stooge (1983)
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Daybreak (1939)
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Uptight (1968)
Production Design
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
Production Design
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
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Mystery Tour (1947)
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Zouzou (1934)
Production Design
The Rainbow Thief (1994)
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A Flea in Her Ear (1968)
Production Design
Plucking the Daisy (1956)
Production Design
The Trout (1982)
Production Design
Gates of the Night (1946)
Production Design
Once More, with Feeling! (1960)
Production Design
Juliette, or Key of Dreams (1951)
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Be Beautiful and Shut Up (1958)
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Impossible Object (1973)
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Love Comedy (1989)
Production Design
Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
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Promise at Dawn (1970)
Production Design
Roads to the South (1978)
Production Design
Summer Light (1943)
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The Great Deception (1959)
Production Design
Chicago Digest (1951)
Production Design
The Train Killer (1983)
Production Design
Sophie's Misfortune (1946)
Production Design