Victoria Mercanton, or Victoria Spiri-MercantonNY Times.com (1911–2007), was a French film editor and director, born Viktoria Aleksandrovna Pozner () on 25 January [O.S. 12 January] 1911, in Saint Petersburg, Russia,Victoria Mercanton on lesgensducinema.com active from the 1930s to 1970s.Victoria Mercanton. Oscars.org
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."Vadim, Roger, Bardot Deneuve Fonda, Warner Books, NY 1986, p. 100. ISBN 0-446-34483-4
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 PoznerВладимир Познер — откровенно о себе, стране и журналистике Nephew — Vladimir PoznerВладимир Познер: «Российские вина я не понимаю»
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