Roland Topor

Roland Topor

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.

  • Title: Roland Topor
  • Popularity: 1.441
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1938-01-07
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Roland Topor Movies

  • 1979
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    Nosferatu the Vampyre

    Nosferatu the Vampyre

    7.3 1979 HD

    A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a...

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  • 1979
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    Ratataplan

    Ratataplan

    6.8 1979 HD

    Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he...

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  • 1984
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    Swann in Love

    Swann in Love

    5.7 1984 HD

    In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes,...

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  • 2004
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    Topor and Me

    Topor and Me

    4 2004 HD

    Animated short by actress Sylvia Kristel about the art scene in Paris during the start of her French career playing Emmanuelle. She reminisces about...

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  • 1986
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    The Satin Spider

    The Satin Spider

    1 1986 HD

    The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a...

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  • 1972
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    Cartoon circus

    Cartoon circus

    5 1972 HD

    Feature film.

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  • 1981
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    The Ones That Got Away

    The Ones That Got Away

    4.6 1981 HD

    In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.

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  • 1979
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    Destins parallèles

    Destins parallèles

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1974
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    Italiques: Roland Topor

    Italiques: Roland Topor

    1 1974 HD

    Roger Boussinot directed this episode of the French television show Italiques, which features an overview of the art and career of Fantastic Planet...

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  • 1975
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    The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard

    The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard

    1 1975 HD

    Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of...

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  • 1975
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    The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan

    The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan

    1 1975 HD

    A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.

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  • 1979
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    The Making of 'Nosferatu'

    The Making of 'Nosferatu'

    6.3 1979 HD

    Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.

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  • 1974
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    Threshold of the Void

    Threshold of the Void

    7.3 1974 HD

    The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the...

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  • 1997
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    Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort

    Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort

    1 1997 HD

    A brief meeting with the writer and playwright Roland Topor in his studio.

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  • 1974
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    Sweet Movie

    Sweet Movie

    5.3 1974 HD

    The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.

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  • 1965
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    He! Viva Dada

    He! Viva Dada

    1 1965 HD

    Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings...

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  • 2015
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    Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

    Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

    6 2015 HD

    40 years of "Apostrophes". Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a...

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  • 1966
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    Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

    Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

    6.4 1966 HD

    In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big...

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  • 2010
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    Fantastic Laloux

    Fantastic Laloux

    5.1 2010 HD

    A short documentary about the life of director and artist René Laloux, featuring an interview with Laloux from 2001.

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  • 1976
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    The Tenant

    The Tenant

    7.6 1976 HD

    A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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  • 1986
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    La Galette du roi

    La Galette du roi

    4.6 1986 HD

    In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a...

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  • 1989
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    Marquis

    Marquis

    6.4 1989 HD

    In pre-French Revolution Bastille, the Marquis is held being unjustly accused of working to overthrow the king. While his talking penis, Colin, longs...

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  • 1972
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    The Troubles of Alfred

    The Troubles of Alfred

    5.8 1972 HD

    Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman....

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  • 1979
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    The Hamburg Syndrome

    The Hamburg Syndrome

    5.9 1979 HD

    When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is...

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  • 1975
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    The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard

    The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard

    1 1975 HD

    Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of...

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  • 1964
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    Dead Times

    Dead Times

    6.8 1964 HD

    What is man? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots...

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  • 1975
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    The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan

    The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan

    1 1975 HD

    A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.

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  • 2024
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    Joko

    Joko

    1 2024 HD

    Joko is a young man who works on the cistern, he is the only breadwinner in a family. On his second anniversary of employment, Joko and his...

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  • 2005
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    L'Hiver sous la table

    L'Hiver sous la table

    1 2005 HD

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  • 1973
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    Fantastic Planet

    Fantastic Planet

    7.7 1973 HD

    On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of...

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  • 1990
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    The Most Beautiful Breasts in the World

    The Most Beautiful Breasts in the World

    6.5 1990 HD

    Film short comedy about a man who miraculously gets woman's breasts.

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  • 2012
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    The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm

    The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm

    2 2012 HD

    Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. She lives in an orphanage in Burgandy.

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  • 1965
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    He! Viva Dada

    He! Viva Dada

    1 1965 HD

    Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings...

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  • 2019
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    Portrait of Suzanne

    Portrait of Suzanne

    1 2019 HD

    A man trying to forget his loneliness with food, sees his left foot turn into Suzanne, a woman he once loved.

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  • 1966
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    The Snails

    The Snails

    7 1966 HD

    In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

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  • 1964
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    Dead Times

    Dead Times

    6.8 1964 HD

    What is man? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots...

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  • 2008
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    Batailles

    Batailles

    1 2008 HD

    "Resumption of a play created in 1983. Two shipwrecked people on a makeshift raft in the middle of a social conflict, a mountaineering fight on Mount...

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  • 1966
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    The Snails

    The Snails

    7 1966 HD

    In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

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  • 1987
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    Nulle part ailleurs

    Nulle part ailleurs

    5.6 1987 HD

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  • 1972
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    6.7 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.2 1970 HD

    Created by French surrealist artist Roland Topor and director Henri Xhonneux, Telecat is a news show parody hosted by a tomcat named Groucha (who...

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.2 1970 HD

    Created by French surrealist artist Roland Topor and director Henri Xhonneux, Telecat is a news show parody hosted by a tomcat named Groucha (who...

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7 1970 HD

    Animation TV magazine.

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    7.2 1970 HD

    Created by French surrealist artist Roland Topor and director Henri Xhonneux, Telecat is a news show parody hosted by a tomcat named Groucha (who...

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