Victoria Mercanton, or Victoria Spiri-Mercanton[1] (1911–2007), was a French film editor and director, born Viktoria Aleksandrovna Pozner (Russian: Виктория Александровна Познер) on 25 January [O.S. 12 January] 1911, in Saint Petersburg, Russia,[2] active from the 1930s to 1970s.[3]
Known as Toto, she was a frequent collaborator on the films of Roger Vadim since his directorial debut in 1956 with And God Created Woman.
After surviving a couple of disastrous fires of nitrate film in the editing suite - including one which claimed the life of a director sitting next to her - Mercanton successfully lobbied the government to legislate that the French film industry switch to safety film by the mid-1950s. She flippantly explained to Vadim, "You understand, I wanted to be able to smoke my Gauloises while working."[4]
Family
[edit]Daughter of Russian Jews Aleksandr and Elizaveta Pozner. Her family fled Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution.
- Husband — film editor Roger Spiri-Mercanton
- Brother — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner[5]
- Nephew — Vladimir Pozner[6]
References
[edit]- ^ NY Times.com
- ^ Victoria Mercanton on lesgensducinema.com
- ^ Victoria Mercanton. Oscars.org
- ^ Vadim, Roger, Bardot Deneuve Fonda, Warner Books, NY 1986, p. 100. ISBN 0-446-34483-4
- ^ Владимир Познер — откровенно о себе, стране и журналистике
- ^ Владимир Познер: «Российские вина я не понимаю»
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