Roland Topor
Date of birth: 1938-01-07
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Writing
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Biography
Roland Topor was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, known for the surreal nature of his work. He gained notoriety as one of the home cartoonists of the subversive French magazine Hara-Kiri, renamed later Charlie-Hebdo. Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimérique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski in 1976. The Tenant is the story of a Parisian of Polish descent, a chilling exploration of alienation and identity, asking disturbing questions about how we define ourselves.
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979-01-17
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious C
Swann in Love
1984-02-23
In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitut
Topor and Me
2004-12-02
Animated short by actress Sylvia Kristel about the art scene in Paris during the start of her French
The Satin Spider
1986-03-26
The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress In
Cartoon circus
1972-01-01
Feature film.
The Ones That Got Away
1981-02-25
In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love
Destins parallèles
1979-01-01
Italiques: Roland Topor
1974-08-08
Roger Boussinot directed this episode of the French television show Italiques, which features an ove
The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
1975-09-03
Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious c
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
1975-02-19
A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979-10-06
Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.
Threshold of the Void
1974-03-27
The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arriv
Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort
1997-01-01
A brief meeting with the writer and playwright Roland Topor in his studio.
Sweet Movie
1974-06-12
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and end
He! Viva Dada
1965-09-05
Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
2015-11-06
Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts prese
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966-10-21
In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fash
Fantastic Laloux
2010-12-08
A short documentary about the life of director and artist René Laloux, featuring an interview with L
Topor, Père et Fils
1993-01-01
Three Lives and Only One Death
1996-05-15
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fai
Ratataplan
1979-01-01
Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a jo