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The Tenant

Name: The Tenant
Director: Roman Polanski
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Drama
Released: 1976
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

1976 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 126 min · Thriller · Mystery · Drama · 29 frames

Tagline

Apartment for rent: Quiet building. Furnished. 2 rooms. Previous tenant committed suicide.

Crew

Screenplay: Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach
Cinematography: Sven Nykvist
Edited by: Françoise Bonnot
Music: Philippe Sarde
Production design: Pierre Guffroy
Produced by: Andrew Braunsberg

Cast

Roman Polanski as Trelkovsky
Isabelle Adjani as Stella
Melvyn Douglas as Monsieur Zy
Jo Van Fleet as Madame Dioz
Bernard Fresson as Scope
Shelley Winters as Concierge
Lila Kedrova as Madame Gaderian
Claude Dauphin as Husband at accident
Claude Piéplu as Neighbour
Rufus as Georges Badar

Production

Country: France
Language: English, French
Studios: Marianne Productions
Box office: $5,100,000
Themes: suicide, paris, france, identity, psychopath, paranoia, hallucination, identity crisis, lodger, neighbor, tenant

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The Ghost Writer — 2010
Repulsion — 1965
Pirates — 1986
Knife in the Water — 1962
Venus in Fur — 2013
The Fearless Vampire Killers — 1967
The Pianist — 2002
The Ninth Gate — 1999
Carnage — 2011
Rosemary's Baby — 1968
Chinatown — 1974

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