Victoria Mercanton

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 January 25 [O.S. January 12], 1911, in Saint Petersburg, Russia,[2] active from the 1930s to 1970s.[3]

Victoria Mercanton in 1989

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.

References
  1. NY Times.com
  2. Victoria Mercanton on lesgensducinema.com
  3. Victoria Mercanton. Oscars.org
  4. Vadim, Roger, Bardot Deneuve Fonda, Warner Books, NY 1986, p. 100. ISBN 0-446-34483-4
  5. Владимир Познер — откровенно о себе, стране и журналистике
  6. Владимир Познер: «Российские вина я не понимаю»


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