| The Tenant | |
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| French | Le locataire |
| Directed by | Roman Polanski |
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| Based on | The Tenant by Roland Topor |
| Produced by | Andrew Braunsberg |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Sven Nykvist |
| Edited by | Françoise Bonnot |
| Music by | Philippe Sarde |
Production company | Marianne Productions |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (through Cinema International Corporation[1]) |
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Running time | 126 minutes |
| Country | France |
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| Box office | $5.1 million[2][3] |
The Tenant (French: Le locataire) is a 1976 French psychological horror thriller film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gérard Brach, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Roland Topor.[4] The film stars Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin and Shelley Winters. It is the final installment in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy", following Repulsion (1965) and Rosemary's Baby (1968), it was Polanski's last film before being accused of sexual assault in 1977, and then fleeing the United States.
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