Victoria Mercanton

Editor

Russia

Biography

Victoria Mercanton, or Victoria Spiri-Mercanton (1911-2006), is a French film editor and director, born Victoria Pozner Saint Petersburg (Russia), active from the 1930s to 1970s. -Wikipedia Victoria is credited for being an editor on 46 movies and has been credited as directing three.

Filmography

6.0

Barbarella

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

6.1

...And God Created Woman

18-year-old orphan Juliette's unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his futile attempts to tame her wild ways.

6.3

Woman Times Seven

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.

5.4

The Game Is Over

Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.

5.7

Circle of Love

In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."

4.6

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman

Modern-day Don Juan-styled Jeanne prides herself in the destruction of men who have fallen for her charms, and reveals to a priest the murder she has committed and honestly details her past sexual encounters.

4.0

Charlotte

Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.

3.2

Game of Seduction

A virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her newly awakened joy in passion turns to dust.

6.5

Dangerous Love Affairs

Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.

5.9

Blood and Roses

The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her village.

5.5

Someone Behind the Door

A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

6.1

Fric-Frac

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.

5.8

Love on a Pillow

After rescuing a man from a suicide attempt, Geneviève's life is hijacked by his verbal and emotional abuse, yet she can't seem to tear herself from him.

6.3

The Blonde Witch

Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.

7.0

The Fan

Martine is a lonely girl in an exclusive boarding school who conjures up a glamorous existence in order to make her dull life tolerable and to impress the other girls. One of her flights of fancy is a love affair with Brevannes, a famous composer. She leaves the school and goes to the French Alps to find the life she's only dreamed about, where she meets Brevannes and a December-May romance develops until she meets a young mountain guide, Henri Vidal.

5.0

The Night Heaven Fell

Novitiate Ursula leaves the convent and becomes involved with Lambert, who blames her lecherous uncle, the count Ribera, for his sister's death.

5.6

Vice and Virtue

1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life. Her younger sister Justine (Virtue) is about to marry Jean who is in the Resistance and come to Juliette for help. Both sisters end up at "la Commanderie", where Juliette becomes SS Colonel Schonberg's mistress and Justine is detained with other pretty girls who must satisfy the sexual needs of high-ranking nazi officials. Inspired by "Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu" by the marquis de Sade

4.2

Flesh and the Woman

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.

5.6

Nutty, Naughty Chateau

An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.

5.0

Manhunt for Murder

A French waiter living in New York City witnesses a murder and must go on the run from the police and the mob.