Roland Topor
Paris, France
1938-01-07
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.
Movies:
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Swann in Love
Topor and Me
The Satin Spider
Cartoon circus
The Ones That Got Away
Destins parallèles
Italiques: Roland Topor
The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
Threshold of the Void
Le Cinéma au travail comme la mort
Sweet Movie
He! Viva Dada
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Fantastic Laloux
Topor, Père et Fils
Three Lives and Only One Death
Ratataplan
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