Georges Wakhévitch
Georges Wakhévitch (Georgy Leonidovich Vakhevich; August 18, 1907 in Odessa, Russian Empire – February 11, 1984 in Paris) was a Russian-born French art director.
The son of a naval engineer, he immigrated to France in 1921. He was grew up in Paris, where he studied painting. He was an assistant to film director Lazare Meerson in the 1920s.
Wakhévitch also designed sets and costumes for the theatre, the ballet, and the opera. His designs usually used vivid colours and successful sets for Covent Garden included Boris Godunov, Otello, Die Meistersinger and London's first ever staging of Verdi's Macbeth in 1960. He also provided Paris in 1956 with new sets for Gounod's Faust, replacing some in use for over half a century.
He was the father of avant-garde composer Igor Wakhévitch.
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Movies (59)
The Tragedy of Carmen
1983 · Set Designer
Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979 · Production Design
La Puce à l'oreille
1978 · Art Direction
Otello
1973 · Production Design
Électre
1972 · Costume Designer
Delusions of Grandeur
1971 · Production Design, Set Decoration
King Lear
1970 · Production Design
Mayerling
1968 · Production Design
Oscar
1967 · Head Decorator
All Mad About Him
1967 · Set Decoration
Bizet Carmen
1967 · Costume Design
Funny Money
1966 · Production Design
Crime on a Summer Morning
1965 · Art Direction
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964 · Production Design
Scheherazade
1963 · Costume Design
Crime Does Not Pay
1962 · Set Decoration, Costume Design
Famous Love Affairs
1961 · Production Design
King of Kings
1961 · Costume Design, Set Designer
Don Giovanni
1961 · Costume Designer
Black Tights
1961 · Costume Design
Marie-Octobre
1959 · Art Direction
Clara and the Villains
1958 · Art Direction
A Woman Like Satan
1958 · Costume Design, Production Design
Me and the Colonel
1958 · Art Direction
Paris Holiday
1958 · Production Design
Tamango
1958 · Costume Design
Don Juan
1956 · Art Direction, Production Design, Costume Design
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1954 · Production Design
Flesh and Desire
1954 · Costume Designer, Production Design
Mademoiselle Nitouche
1954 · Costume Design
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954 · Self
King Lear
1953 · Art Designer
The Beggar's Opera
1953 · Production Design, Costume Design
Innocents in Paris
1953 · Production Design
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952 · Production Design
The Medium
1951 · Art Direction
Miquette
1950 · Production Design, Costume Design
Now Barabbas
1949 · Art Direction
The Eagle with Two Heads
1948 · Production Design
Dedee
1948 · Production Design
The Queen's Lover
1948 · Production Design
The Eternal Husband
1946 · Production Design
Box of Dreams
1945 · Set Decoration
The Eternal Return
1943 · Production Design
L'assassin a peur la nuit
1942 · Art Direction
Schubert's Serenade
1940 · Production Design
Personal Column
1939 · Art Direction
Louise
1939 · Production Design
Conflit
1938 · Set Decoration
Gibraltar
1938 · Production Design
The Postmaster's Daughter
1938 · Production Design
La Marseillaise
1938 · Production Design
The Time of the Cherries
1938 · Decorator
Precious Fools
1938 · Art Direction, Production Design
The Daughters of the Concierge
1934 · Production Design
The Man with the Hispano
1933 · Production Design
Baroud
1933 · Art Direction
A Man's Head
1933 · Art Direction
That scoundrel Morin
1932 · Art Direction
