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The tenant [DVD] / Directed by Roman Polanski with Paramount Pictures.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 086764 | ParamountPublication details: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2003], c1976.Description: 1 DVDc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0792179285
  • 9780792179283
Other title:
  • Locataire
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • DVD 253A
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Françoise Bonnot ; music, Philippe Sarde ; costume designer, Jacques Schmidt ; production designer, Pierre Guffroy.
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters, Roman Polanski.Summary: A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant.
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3 Day Loan LSAD Library DVD collection DVD 253A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100424762

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors -- mostly old recluses -- eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous tenant, a beautiful young woman, jumped from the window in a suicide attempt, Trelkovsky begins obsessing over the dead woman. Growing increasingly paranoid, Trelkovsky convinces himself that his neighbors plan to kill him. He even comes to the conclusion that Stella (Isabel Adjani), the woman he has fallen in love with, is in on the "plot." Ultimately, Polanski assumes the identity of the suicide victim -- and inherits her self-destructive urges. Some critics found the movie tedious and overdone; others compared it to Polanski's early breakthrough, Repulsion. The film was based on Le Locataire Chimerique, a novel by Roland Topor. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976.

Based on the novel by Roland Topor.

Director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Françoise Bonnot ; music, Philippe Sarde ; costume designer, Jacques Schmidt ; production designer, Pierre Guffroy.

Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters, Roman Polanski.

A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant.

MPAA rating: R.

DVD, Dolby digital mono.

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