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Alexandre Trauner
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…
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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.
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1994
The Rainbow Thief
Movie Production Design
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1989
Love Comedy
Movie Production Design
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1989
Reunion
Movie Caretaker
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1988
The Bengali Night
Movie Art Direction
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1986
'Round Midnight
Movie Production Design
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1986
Before Midnight
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1985
Subway
Movie Art Direction
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1983
So Long, Stooge
Movie Production Design
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1983
The Train Killer
Movie Production Design
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1982
The Trout
Movie Production Design
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1981
Coup de Torchon
Movie Production Design
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1981
Le Roi des cons
Movie Le vieux monsieur au petit chien
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1980
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Movie Production Design
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1979
Don Giovanni
Movie Production Design
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1978
Fedora
Movie Production Design
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1978
Regie: Billy Wilder
Movie Self
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1978
Roads to the South
Movie Production Design
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1976
Mr. Klein
Movie Art Direction
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1975
The Man Who Would Be King
Movie Production Design
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1973
Impossible Object
Movie Production Design
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1970
Promise at Dawn
Movie Production Design
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1970
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Movie Production Design
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1968
Uptight
Movie Production Design
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1968
A Flea in Her Ear
Movie Production Design
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1967
The Night of the Generals
Movie Production Design
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1967
The Birth of Children of Paradise
Movie Self
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1966
How to Steal a Million
Movie Production Design
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1964
Kiss Me, Stupid
Movie Production Design
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1964
Behold a Pale Horse
Movie Production Design
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1963
Irma la Douce
Movie Producer
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1962
Five Miles to Midnight
Movie Production Design
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1961
One, Two, Three
Movie Art Direction
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1961
Paris Blues
Movie Art Direction
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1961
Goodbye Again
Movie Production Design
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1960
The Apartment
Movie Art Direction
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1960
Once More, with Feeling!
Movie Production Design
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1959
The Great Deception
Movie Production Design
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1959
The Nun's Story
Movie Art Direction
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1958
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Movie Production Design
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1958
Paris mange son pain
Movie Self
