The Tenant

the Tenant is a dramatic film French of 1976, carried out by Roman Polanski.

Synopsis

Trelkovsky, a timid and reserved man, visit a vacant apartment to rent it. At the time of the visit, the caretaker teaches him that old the tenant wanted to commit suicide, without apparent reason, by throwing window of the apartment. After the death of old the tenant, it moves in. It quickly will realize that all its neighbors have a strange behavior. And some even start to badger it…

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  • With Repulsion , Rosemary' S baby and the Ninth door , the Tenant belongs to the tetralogy of Roman Polanski on the topic of fantastic with the daily newspaper.
  • the building was reconstituted with the studios of Épinay. As it was not possible to build more than two stages in studio, one used a mirror at the base to give the illusion which the building had four.
  • the film represented France with the Cannes festival in 1976.
  • the type-setter Philippe Sarde makes a Caméo in the role of the man who looks at Trelkovsky and Stella with the cinema.
  • Mad Movies, stores specialized in the shifted cinema, classified this film among ten films more terrifying of all times among other more obvious choices such as the Exorcist or Massacre with the slicer.
  • Sven Nykvist, person in charge of photography, had been particularly pointed out by carrying out lightings of many films of Ingmar Bergman.
  • Philippe Sarde, the type-setter, used the knell-harmonica after Polanski made pretense make sing its glass at the restaurant.

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