ALEXANDRE TRAUNER

Alexandre Trauner was a legendary Hungarian production designer and art director from the 1930s to the 1990s. After studying painting at the Hungarian Royal Drawing School, he emigrated to Paris in 1929. He became the assistant of set designer Lazare Meerson (working on many French classics including "A nous la liberte", "Le million", and "La Kermisse heroique", among many others). In 1937, he became a chief set designer, and he did many French classics, including Les Enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise), Le jour se leve, Drole de drame, and Hotel du nord. He began working in Hollywood in the 1950s, and in addition to other movies like Witness For the Prosecution and The Man Who Would Be King, he became close with Billy Wilder and worked on many of his best films of this period, including Love in the Afternoon and The Apartment. He continued working until 1989, including working on Luc Besson's "Subway" in 1985, and he passed away in 1993 at the age of 87.