A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Acting
Polanski's physical deterioration is genuinely unsettling to witness.
Production
The apartment itself becomes the film's most terrifying character.
Direction
That bathroom scene. You'll know it. You'll never forget it.
Director
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski
Trelkovsky
Isabelle Adjani
Stella
Melvyn Douglas
Monsieur Zy
Jo Van Fleet
Madame Dioz
Bernard Fresson
Scope
Shelley Winters
Concierge
Lila Kedrova
Madame Gaderian
Claude Dauphin
Husband at accident
Claude Piéplu
Neighbour
Rufus
Georges Badar
Romain Bouteille
Simon
Gérard Jugnot
Office Clerk
Josiane Balasko
Viviane, Office Worker
Michel Blanc
Scope's Neighbor
Jacques Monod
Cafe Owner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Polanski's last film before fleeing to Europe after his California arrest; the persecution themes became uncomfortably prophetic.
The film completes Polanski's 'Apartment Trilogy' after Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby — each exploring domestic spaces as traps where women's trauma becomes contagious to men who enter.
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