Art
Community Rating
6.4
TMDB estimate
Born
August 3, 1906
Died
December 5, 1993 (age 87)
Born in
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.

The Rainbow Thief
as Production Design
1994

Love Comedy
as Production Design
1989

Reunion
as Caretaker, Production Design
1989

The Bengali Night
as Art Direction
1988

'Round Midnight
as Production Design
1986

Before Midnight
as Self (archive footage)
1986

Subway
as Production Design, Art Direction
1985

So Long, Stooge
as Production Design
1983

The Train Killer
as Production Design
1983

The Trout
as Production Design
1982

Coup de Torchon
as Production Design
1981

Le Roi des cons
as Le vieux monsieur au petit chien
1981

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
as Production Design
1980

Don Giovanni
as Production Design, Art Direction
1979

Fedora
as Production Design
1978

Roads to the South
as Production Design
1978

Mr. Klein
as Art Direction
1976

The Man Who Would Be King
as Production Design
1975

Impossible Object
as Production Design
1973

Promise at Dawn
as Production Design
1970