A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Claude Piéplu
- Neighbor
- (as Claude Pieplu)
Louba Guertchikoff
- Wife at accident
- (as Louba Chazel)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
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- TriviaAlong with Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968) this film is part of a loose trilogy by Roman Polanski dealing with the horrors faced by apartment and city dwellers.
- GoofsWhen Trelkovsky is unpacking as he moves into the apartment, a crew member is reflected in the small mirror adjacent to the kitchen sink. Two crew members are then reflected in the armoire's mirror as Trelkovsky opens it.
- Quotes
Trelkovsky: [while looking at himself in the mirror] Beautiful. Adorable. Goddess. Divine. Divine! I think I'm pregnant.
- Crazy creditsThe film has no end credits; only the Paramount logo.
- Alternate versionsAlthough the UK cinema version was complete the 1986 CIC video was cut by 6 secs by the BBFC to remove a brief extract of the banned nunchaku scene from Enter the Dragon (1973) (seen by Trelkovsky and Stella during a cinema visit). The cuts were fully waived in the 2004 Paramount DVD.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Revanche (1983)
- SoundtracksCour D'Immeuble
Written and Performed by Philippe Sarde Et Orchestre
Featured review
A Kafkaesque thriller of alienation and paranoia
A Kafkaesque thriller of alienation and paranoia. Extremely well done and Polanski performs well as the diffident introvert trying hard to adapt to his dingy Paris lodgings and his fellow lodgers. Horrifying early on because of the seeming mean and self obsessed fellow tenants and horrifying later on as he develops his defences which will ultimately be his undoing. Personally I could have done without the cross dressing element but I accept the nod to Psycho and the fact that it had some logic, bearing in mind the storyline. Nevertheless it could have worked without and would have removed the slightly theatrical element, but then maybe that was intended because the courtyard certainly seems to take on the look of a theatre at the end. I can't help feel that there are more than a few of the director's own feelings of not being a 'real' Frenchman and Jewish to boot. Still, there is plenty to enjoy here including a fine performance from a gorgeous looking Isabelle Adjani and good old Shelly Winters is as reliable as ever.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Stanar
- Filming locations
- Rue la Bruyère, Paris 9, Paris, France(apartment building at N°39)
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,924,733
- Gross worldwide
- $1,924,733
- Runtime2 hours 6 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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