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