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Alexandre Trauner
Highest Rated: 100% Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Lowest Rated: 17% The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
Birthday: Aug 3, 1906
Birthplace: Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Renowned, influential art director, a key figure of the French "poetic realism" movement which began in the mid-1930s. Trauner apprenticed under Lazare Meerson and worked with director Rene Clair on his famous early sound musical comedies, notably the satire of industrialization in the city, "A Nous la Liberte" (1931). Trauner espoused a studio-bound aesthetic, producing textured, finely detailed sets which subtly highlighted both the naturalism and the claustrophobic, indeed existential, pessimism of such Marcel Carne classics of poetic realism as "Quai des brumes" (1938) and "Le Jour se leve/Daybreak" (1939).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 64% | Reunion | Production Design | - | 1989 |
| 83% | 83% | Coup de Torchon | Production Design | - | 1981 |
| 17% | 43% | The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | Production Design | - | 1980 |
| 71% | 61% | Fedora | Production Design | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Swashbuckler | Production Design | - | 1971 |
| 89% | 73% | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Production Design | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | A Flea in Her Ear | Production Design | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | Goodbye Again | Art Director | - | 1961 |
| 100% | 95% | Witness for the Prosecution | Art Director | - | 1957 |
| 93% | 95% | Rififi | Production Design | $57.2K | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Marie du Port | Production Design | - | 1950 |
| 98% | 95% | Children of Paradise | Production Design | $31.9K | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Summer Light | Production Design | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Stormy Waters | Production Design | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Curtain Rises | Production Design | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hatred | Art Director | - | 1938 |