The Tenant
A Feature film of
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Production year1976
French release26/05/1976
Runtime2 h 5 min
Synopsis
In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trekovsky feels ridden by his neighbors. Meanwhile he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella. After the death of Simone, Trekovsky feels obsessed for her and believes his landlord and neighbors are plotting a scheme to force him to also commit suicide.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (36)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Marianne Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Paramount Pictures S.A. (Catalogue de droits)
- French distribution : Cinema International Corporation (CIC)
Full credits (20)
- Screenwriters : Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach
- Director of Photography : Sven Nykvist
- Music Composer : Philippe Sarde
- Assistant directors : Marc Grunebaum, Jean-Jacques Aublanc
- Editor : Françoise Bonnot
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Pierre Ruh
- Costume designer : Jacques Schmidt
- Author of original work : Roland Topor
- Producer : Alain Sarde
- Sound Assistant : Louis Gimel
- Assistant Operators : François Catonné, Bruno De Keyzer
- Camera Operator : Jean Harnois
- Production Manager : Marc Maurette
- Sound Editor : Michèle Boehm
- Assistant Editor : Jacques Audiard
- Continuity supervisor : Sylvette Baudrot
- Production Designer : Pierre Guffroy
- Artistic directors : Albert Rajau, Claude Moesching
- Still Photographer : Bernard Prim
- Unit Production Manager : Alain Depardieu
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fantasy
- Themes : The neighborhood
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
