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