The Tenant (1976)

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Movie
German title The tenant
Original title Le locataire
Country of production France
original language English
Publishing year 1976
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Roman Polanski
script Gérard Brach ,
Roman Polański
production Andrew Braunsberg
music Philippe Sarde
camera Sven Nykvist
cut Françoise Bonnot
occupation
synchronization

The tenant (original title: Le locataire ) is a French psychological thriller by and with Roman Polański , which can be assigned to the genre of psychological film, in particular the psychological thriller . The novel Le locataire chimérique by Roland Topor served as a template , which Polański and Gérard Brach rewritten into a script in just six weeks.

action

The reluctant office worker Trelkovsky rents a furnished apartment on the third floor of the owner of a rental house in Paris . He learns from the concierge that the previous tenant Simone Choule jumped out the window of the apartment. During a visit to the hospital - shortly before her death - he met her friend Stella and learned a lot about Simone Choule. When they say goodbye to Simone, she starts screaming loudly for no apparent reason.

Trelkovsky's new neighbors are very reserved and suspicious of him. Every time he moves, they knock on the walls to warn him to calm down. Soon the property management and the police will also receive anonymous reports. It is known everywhere as nocturnal and disruptive.

Trelkowsky's psychological experience is changing increasingly. He imagines more and more that his neighbors want to transform him into Simone Choule and also want to drive him to his death. In the café he gets Simone's drinks and cigarettes, he receives Simone's mail from the concierge, and if his apartment is broken into, all his personal belongings are stolen while those of his previous tenant remain untouched. Trelkovsky begins to identify with Simone, puts on her clothes and believes that he will now be treated like her. He suffers from feverish dreams and delusions , sees people watching him, hears knocking signals on his door and injures himself one night.

In the city he is hit by a car and thinks that the passers-by hurrying to help are his murderous neighbors. Back in his apartment, he gives in to his supposed fate and rushes out of the window in the clothes of his previous tenant. His neighbors gather around him. In his madness he sees them as a threat too. Badly injured, he crawls back into his apartment and throws himself out the window a second time. He suffered similar serious injuries as his previous tenant before.

The final scene, apparently one of Trelkovsky's delusions, is the same scene as the one in which he and Stella visited Simone Choule in the hospital. Only this time does the viewer experience it from Simone Choule's perspective.

background

The film (a production by Paramount Pictures , USA) was shot in France with French and American actors in English (the script was written in English). Many of the original dialogues by the French actors had to be dubbed later by American actors.

The film was released in theaters in the Federal Republic of Germany on October 8, 1976, and was first broadcast on television on October 12, 1984 at 10:45 p.m. on ZDF .

synchronization

The German synchronization was commissioned by the Berliner Synchron , after a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Ottokar Runze .

role actor German speaker
Trelkovsky Roman Polanski Marius Müller-Westernhagen
Stella Isabelle Adjani Cornelia Meinhardt
Monsieur Zy Melvyn Douglas Siegfried Schürenberg
Madame Dioz Jo Van Fleet Christine Gerlach
Georges Badar Rufus Hans-Werner Bussinger
Concierge Shelley Winters Inge Wolffberg
Madame Gaderian Purple Kedrova Eva Lissa
Simon Romain Bouteille Norbert Gescher
Scope Bernard Fresson Randolf Kronberg

Reviews

The TV magazine Prisma places the film as “well above the genre average” , even if it cannot fully tie in with the originality of Ekel . Polański also delivers an outstanding performance as the main actor.

The lexicon of international films says: “Polanski describes a process of psychological decline as a hallucinatory alienation from reality and develops the irrational horror out of banal everyday details. The grandiose staged surface of the film (and the convincing representation of the tenant by Polanski himself) cannot hide the fact that the horror often becomes a mannerist end in itself. "

Awards

The film took part in the competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1976 , but did not receive any awards. Production designer Pierre Guffroy was nominated for a César in 1977 .

literature

  • Paul Werner : Roman Polanski (= Fischer Cinema. 3671) Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-23671-1 .
  • Linda Williams: Film Madness: The Uncanny Return of the Repressed in Polanski's “The Tenant”. In: Cinema Journal . Volume 20, No. 2 (Spring, 1981), ISSN  0009-7101 , pp. 63-73.
  • Liz-Anne Bawden (Ed.): Bucher's Encyclopedia of Films. Bucher, Lucerne / Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-7658-0231-X .
  • FX Feeney, Paul Duncan (Eds.): Roman Polanski. Taschen, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8228-2541-7 .
  • Thomas Koebner (Ed.): Film directors. Biographies, descriptions of works, filmographies. Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-010455-6 .
  • Jürgen Müller (Ed.): Films of the 70s. Taschen, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8228-2190-X .
  • Michael Töteberg (Ed.): Metzler Film Lexicon. Metzler, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-476-02068-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDb
  2. ↑ https://drsapirstein.blogspot.com/2016/04/polanskis-tenant-special-edition-full.html
  3. ^ Filmdienst.de (credits), and This week on television . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1984 ( online - Oct. 8, 1984 ).
  4. ↑ The tenant. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The tenant on prisma-online.de
  6. ↑ The tenant. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used