The Tenant
Apartment for rent: Quiet building. Furnished. 2 rooms. Previous tenant committed suicide.
Country
Production
Budget
$0
Box office
$1 924 733
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Andrew Braunsberg, Hercules Bellville
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Catherine Vernoux
Editing
Short description
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on Roland Topor’s novel “The Phantom Tenant” (Le Locataire Chimerique, 1964).
- The idea to use the glass harmonica came to composer Philippa Sarda after he accidentally saw Roman Polanski, while sitting at a restaurant table, mimicking the movements of playing glasses with his fingers.
- Although the film was released in British cinemas without any cuts, the 1986 British video version contained a 'cut': 6 seconds of screen time were removed from the scene where Trelkovsky and Stella are watching a film in the cinema. Specifically, several frames from Robert Clouse's 'Enter the Dragon' (1973) featuring Bruce Lee were deleted. This was because the footage included nunchucks – a weapon officially banned in Europe.
- Philippa Sarda, who composed the music for the film, can be seen in a cameo – he played a man intently watching Trelkovsky in the cinema.
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Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
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