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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

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by the mid-1950s. She flippantly explained to Vadim, "You understand, I wanted to be able to smoke my

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while working."

Family

Daughter of

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Aleksandr and Elizaveta Pozner. Her family fled

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after the

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. *Husband — film editor Roger Spiri-Mercanton * Brother — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner * Nephew —

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Владимир Познер: «Российские вина я не понимаю»
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1911 births 2007 deaths French film editors French women film editors French people of Russian-Jewish descent Soviet emigrants to France Russian Jews {{France-film-bio-stub