Alexandre Trauner
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.
The Apartment
(Art Direction)
The Man Who Would Be King
(Production Design)
One, Two, Three
(Art Direction)
Irma la Douce
(Producer)
Irma la Douce
(Art Direction)
How to Steal a Million
(Production Design)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
(Production Design)
The Happy Road
(Art Direction)
The Night of the Generals
(Production Design)
Don Giovanni
(Art Direction)
Don Giovanni
(Production Design)
Love in the Afternoon
(Art Direction)
The Trout
(Production Design)
Plucking the Daisy
(Production Design)
Hatred
(Art Direction)
The Apartment
(Production Design)
Chicago Digest
(Art Direction)
Once More, with Feeling!
(Production Design)
Roads to the South
(Production Design)
The Nun's Story
(Art Direction)
Irma la Douce
(Production Design)
Five Miles to Midnight
(Production Design)
Goodbye Again
(Production Design)
Witness for the Prosecution
(Production Design)
Love in the Afternoon
(Production Design)
Chicago Digest
(Production Design)
Hatred
(Production Design)
Coup de Torchon
(Production Design)
Kiss Me, Stupid
(Production Design)
Rififi
(Production Design)
The Bengali Night
(Art Direction)
Children of Paradise
(Production Design)
Paris Blues
(Art Direction)
Land of the Pharaohs
(Production Design)
Summer Light
(Production Design)
Zouzou
(Production Design)
The Curtain Rises
(Head Decorator)
Stormy Waters
(Production Design)
Gates of the Night
(Production Design)
Witness for the Prosecution
(Art Direction)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
(Production Design)
Othello
(Production Design)
The Seven Deadly Sins
(Production Design)
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
(Production Design)
A Flea in Her Ear
(Production Design)
Five Miles to Midnight
(Art Direction)
The Green Glove
(Art Direction)
Daybreak
(Production Design)
Promise at Dawn
(Production Design)
Uptight
(Production Design)
L'Âge d'or
(Production Design)
Behold a Pale Horse
(Associate Producer)
Behold a Pale Horse
(Production Design)
Torticola versus Frankensberg
(Art Direction)
Bizarre, Bizarre
(Production Design)
So Long, Stooge
(Production Design)
Goodbye Again
(Art Direction)
Hôtel du Nord
(Production Design)
Hôtel du Nord
(Art Direction)
Subway
(Production Design)
Subway
(Art Direction)
Port of Shadows
(Production Design)
Mr. Klein
(Art Direction)
The Rainbow Thief
(Production Design)
Fedora
(Production Design)
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
(Production Design)
Mystery Tour
(Production Design)
Sophie's Misfortune
(Production Design)
The Great Deception
(Production Design)
Impossible Object
(Production Design)
Reunion
(Production Design)
'Round Midnight
(Production Design)
Love Comedy
(Production Design)