Alexandre Trauner
Art
Born August 3, 1906 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.
Filmography
The Rainbow Thief
Love Comedy
Reunion
Caretaker
The Bengali Night
'Round Midnight
Before Midnight
Self (archive footage)
Subway
So Long, Stooge
The Train Killer
The Trout
Coup de Torchon
Le Roi des cons
Le vieux monsieur au petit chien
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Don Giovanni
Fedora
Roads to the South
Mr. Klein
The Man Who Would Be King
Impossible Object
Promise at Dawn
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Uptight
A Flea in Her Ear
The Night of the Generals
How to Steal a Million
Kiss Me, Stupid
Behold a Pale Horse
Irma la Douce
Five Miles to Midnight
One, Two, Three
Paris Blues
Goodbye Again
The Apartment
Once More, with Feeling!
The Great Deception
The Nun's Story
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Paris mange son pain
Self
Witness for the Prosecution
The Happy Road
Love in the Afternoon
Artist (uncredited)
Plucking the Daisy
Land of the Pharaohs
Rififi
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Green Glove
Othello
Chicago Digest
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Mystery Tour
Gates of the Night
Sophie's Misfortune
Children of Paradise
Summer Light
Stormy Waters
Daybreak
Hôtel du Nord
The Curtain Rises
Port of Shadows
Hatred
Bizarre, Bizarre
Zouzou
L'Âge d'or