Victoria Mercanton
French film director and editor
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
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
External links
- Victoria Mercanton at IMDb
- BFI
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