Known For
Art
Born
Aug 03, 1906
Died
Dec 05, 1993
Place of Birth
Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Credits
66 titles
Alexandre Trauner
Biography
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
Filmography
The Rainbow Thief
Production Design
Love Comedy
Production Design
Reunion
Caretaker
The Bengali Night
Art Direction
'Round Midnight
Production Design
Before Midnight
Self (archive footage)
Subway
Art Direction
So Long, Stooge
Production Design
The Train Killer
Production Design
The Trout
Production Design
Coup de Torchon
Production Design
Le Roi des cons
Le vieux monsieur au petit chien
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Production Design
Don Giovanni
Production Design
Fedora
Production Design
Regie: Billy Wilder
Self
Roads to the South
Production Design
Mr. Klein
Art Direction
The Man Who Would Be King
Production Design
Impossible Object
Production Design
Promise at Dawn
Production Design
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Production Design
Uptight
Production Design
A Flea in Her Ear
Production Design
The Night of the Generals
Production Design
The Birth of Children of Paradise
Self
How to Steal a Million
Production Design
Kiss Me, Stupid
Production Design
Behold a Pale Horse
Production Design
Irma la Douce
Producer
Five Miles to Midnight
Production Design
One, Two, Three
Art Direction
Paris Blues
Art Direction
Goodbye Again
Production Design
The Apartment
Art Direction
Once More, with Feeling!
Production Design
The Great Deception
Production Design
The Nun's Story
Art Direction
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Production Design
Paris mange son pain
Self
Witness for the Prosecution
Production Design
The Happy Road
Art Direction
Love in the Afternoon
Artist (uncredited)
Plucking the Daisy
Production Design
Land of the Pharaohs
Production Design
Rififi
Production Design
Torticola versus Frankensberg
Art Direction
The Seven Deadly Sins
Production Design
The Green Glove
Art Direction
Othello
Production Design