The Tenant

(1976)

★ 7.6 IMDb · 1,260 votes

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Drama

Year: 1976

Runtime: 125 мин

Country: France

Director: Роман Полански

Cast: Роман Полански, Изабель Аджани, Мелвин Дуглас, Jo Van Fleet, Бернар Фрессон, Shelley Winters, Lila Kedrova, Клод Дофен, Клод Пьеплю, Рюфюс

Plot

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors. Meanwhile he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella. After the death of Simone, Trelkovsky feels obsessed for her and believes his landlord and neighbors are plotting a scheme to force him to also commit suicide.