Alexandre Trauner
Production Designer, Film production designer
1906 – 1993
Who was Alexandre Trauner?
Alexandre Trauner was a production designer.
After studying painting at Hungarian Royal Drawing School, he emigrated to Paris in 1929, where he became the assistant of set designer Lazare Meerson, working on such films as À nous la liberté and La Kermesse héroïque. In 1937, he became a chief set designer.
He worked on the majority of Marcel Carné's films, including Quai des brumes, Le Jour se lève, and Les Enfants du paradis.
He designed sets for Witness for the Prosecution directed by Billy Wilder and other Wilder films, John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King, Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni, Luc Besson's Subway.
In 1980, he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.
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- Born
- Aug 3, 1906
Budapest - Also known as
- Alexander Trauner
- A. Trauner
- Alex. Trauner
- Trauner
- Sándor Trau
- Alex Trauner
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Hungarian people
- Nationality
- Hungary
- France
- Profession
- Education
- l'École des beaux-arts de Budapest
- Lived in
- Budapest
(1906 - 1929) - Paris
(1929 - )
- Budapest
- Died
- Dec 5, 1993
Omonville-la-Petite
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on July 23, 2013
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