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Roland Topor

Born 7 January 1938 · Paris, France · Died 16 April 1997

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.

Known for

The Tenant
Fantastic Planet
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Sweet Movie
The Snails
The Troubles of Alfred
Marquis
Three Lives and Only One Death
Swann in Love
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Ratataplan
Dead Times
Three Lives and Only One Death
Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête
The Most Beautiful Breasts in the World
Marquis
The Satin Spider
La Galette du roi
Swann in Love
The Ones That Got Away
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Destins parallèles
Ratataplan
The Hamburg Syndrome
The Tenant
The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
Threshold of the Void
Sweet Movie
Fantastic Planet
The Troubles of Alfred
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
The Snails
He! Viva Dada
Dead Times
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