A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Claude Piéplu
- Neighbor
- (as Claude Pieplu)
Louba Guertchikoff
- Wife at accident
- (as Louba Chazel)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaAlong with Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968) this film is part of a loose trilogy by Roman Polanski dealing with the horrors faced by apartment and city dwellers.
- GoofsWhen Trelkovsky is unpacking as he moves into the apartment, a crew member is reflected in the small mirror adjacent to the kitchen sink. Two crew members are then reflected in the armoire's mirror as Trelkovsky opens it.
- Quotes
Trelkovsky: [while looking at himself in the mirror] Beautiful. Adorable. Goddess. Divine. Divine! I think I'm pregnant.
- Crazy creditsThe film has no end credits; only the Paramount logo.
- Alternate versionsAlthough the UK cinema version was complete the 1986 CIC video was cut by 6 secs by the BBFC to remove a brief extract of the banned nunchaku scene from Enter the Dragon (1973) (seen by Trelkovsky and Stella during a cinema visit). The cuts were fully waived in the 2004 Paramount DVD.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Revanche (1983)
- SoundtracksCour D'Immeuble
Written and Performed by Philippe Sarde Et Orchestre
Featured review
Meek, tiny, almost insignificant. Polanski finds the invisibility of his characters and makes something enormous out of it. In front and behind the camera he creates one of the most uncomfortable masterpieces I had the pleasure to see and see and see again. It never let's me down. People, even people who know me pretty well, thought/think there was/is something wrong with me, based on my attraction, or I should say, devotion for "Le Locataire" They may be right, I don't know but there is something irresistibly enthralling within Polanski's darkness and I haven't even mentioned the humor. The mystery surrounding the apartment and the previous tenant, the mystery that takes over him and, naturally, us, me. That building populated by great old Academy Award winners: Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters, Jo Van Fleet, Lila Kedrova. For anyone who loves movies, this is compulsory viewing. One, two, three, many, many viewings.
- alainbenoix
- Mar 8, 2007
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- Also known as
- Stanar
- Filming locations
- Rue la Bruyère, Paris 9, Paris, France(apartment building at N°39)
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,924,733
- Gross worldwide
- $1,924,733
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