Roland Topor
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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 07, 1938
Deathday: April 16, 1997
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979-01-17
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Overview: 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 property in Wismar.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-17
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Ratataplan
1979-01-01
Ratataplan
Overview: 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 becomes a barman, and he discovers a special formula that turns simple water into the "Immortality drink". He is robbed of the magic water copyright. So he tries to set up a theatrical company, but the first show is a fiasco. Since finding a normal job seems a mission impossible, he tries to set the sentimental side of his life. He targets the most beautiful girl of his building, and for her he builds a robot able to dance like Tony Manero (John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever (1977)). The robot gets drunk (!). It is another fiasco. So he targets an ugly girl and finally with her succeeds to live his surreal world for ever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Swann in Love
1984-02-23
Swann in Love
Overview: In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes, in part, from Odette's complete disinterest in him. When he finally weds her, utterly compromising himself in high society, he finds to his horror that his love for her was a complete illusion. At the same time, the Baron de Charlus pursues his own ill-advised romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-23
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Topor and Me
2004-12-02
Topor and Me
Overview: Animated short by actress Sylvia Kristel about the art scene in Paris during the start of her French career playing Emmanuelle. She reminisces about Roland Topor, who taught her to paint, Hugo Claus, W.F. Hermans and others, while their respective work comes to life in animation.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-02
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The Satin Spider
1986-03-26
The Satin Spider
Overview: The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-26
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Cartoon circus
1972-01-01
Cartoon circus
Overview: Feature film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Ones That Got Away
1981-02-25
The Ones That Got Away
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-25
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Destins parallèles
1979-01-01
Destins parallèles
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Italiques: Roland Topor
1974-08-08
Italiques: Roland Topor
Overview: Roger Boussinot directed this episode of the French television show Italiques, which features an overview of the art and career of Fantastic Planet illustrator Roland Topor. It aired on August 8, 1974.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-08-08
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The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
1975-09-03
The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
Overview: Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidnapped and taken to a Parisian whorehouse. However, a disinherited prince, Dudu who tries to rescue her, is himself kidnapped and forced to serve as a male prostitute. The two captives meet there and fall in love. They are taken away by different rich people - he to an Arab "harem," she to a surgeon's home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-03
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The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
1975-02-19
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
Overview: A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979-10-06
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Overview: Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-06
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Threshold of the Void
1974-03-27
Threshold of the Void
Overview: The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now deceased sister). Wanda doesn't know yet that this room will change all her life shortly after it slightly opens a mysterious forbidden door.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort
1997-01-01
Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort
Overview: A brief meeting with the writer and playwright Roland Topor in his studio.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Sweet Movie
1974-06-12
Sweet Movie
Overview: The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-12
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He! Viva Dada
1965-09-05
He! Viva Dada
Overview: Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings inspired by ""théâtre panique/ the panic theater", includes Fernando Arrabal, Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-05
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Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
2015-11-06
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
Overview: Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-06
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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966-10-21
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Overview: 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 shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of an episode of a vapid TV news documentary series called "Qui êtes-vous?" and is pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country in the Soviet bloc.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-21
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Fantastic Laloux
2010-12-08
Fantastic Laloux
Overview: A short documentary about the life of director and artist René Laloux, featuring an interview with Laloux from 2001.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-08
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Topor, Père et Fils
1993-01-01
Topor, Père et Fils
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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