Roland Topor

A man trying to forget his loneliness with food, sees his left foot turn into Suzanne, a woman he once loved.

40 years of "Apostrophes". Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.

A short documentary about the life of director and artist René Laloux, featuring an interview with Laloux from 2001.

"Resumption of a play created in 1983. Two shipwrecked people on a makeshift raft in the middle of a social conflict, a mountaineering fight on Mount Paterhorn, improbable friction between two men and a woman in the Yvelines ... The places, the situations change, but each time there is a confrontation. The question is not so much who will win, but to take pleasure in the arguments provided by the opponents. Cunning, bad faith, all blows are allowed in what is primarily a fight of words. "

Animated short by actress Sylvia Kristel about the art scene in Paris during the start of her French career playing Emmanuelle. She reminisces about Roland Topor, who taught her to paint, Hugo Claus, W.F. Hermans and others, while their respective work comes to life in animation.

A brief meeting with the writer and playwright Roland Topor in his studio.

A short comedy directed by Rainer Kaufmann.

Marquis, un conocido y obstinado bribón, encarcelado en la Bastilla por blasfemia de poca monta, no tiene más compañía que la de Collin, su órgano sexual, al que habla como un igual. La imaginación creativa de Marquis encuentra salida en sus escritos, lo que le permite soportar su cautiverio sin sufrir demasiado; pero Collin, siendo más realista, preferiría seguir el ejemplo de sus vecinos.

The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.

In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.

Cuando se desata una plaga en Hamburgo, varias personas escapan de la cuarentena y salen de la ciudad... sólo para descubrir que la plaga está más extendida.

Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.

Adaptación de la mítica novela de Bram Stoker que toma como punto de referencia la insuperable adaptación de Murnau. Jonathan Harker viaja desde Wismar a Transilvania, al castillo del legendario conde Drácula, con el fin de venderle una mansión en su ciudad. Atraído por una fotografía de Lucy, la mujer de Harker, Nosferatu parte inmediatamente hacia Wismar, llevando con él muerte y el horror.

Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he becomes a barman, and he discovers a special formula that turns simple water into the "Immortality drink". He is robbed of the magic water copyright. So he tries to set up a theatrical company, but the first show is a fiasco. Since finding a normal job seems a mission impossible, he tries to set the sentimental side of his life. He targets the most beautiful girl of his building, and for her he builds a robot able to dance like Tony Manero (John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever (1977)). The robot gets drunk (!). It is another fiasco. So he targets an ugly girl and finally with her succeeds to live his surreal world for ever.

Un tímido conserje (Roman Polanski) se muda a una habitación, en la que una chica intentó suicidarse arrojándose por la ventana. A medida que pasa el tiempo, el nuevo inquilino empieza a temer que sus vecinos intenten provocar en él un estado de paranoia que lo induzca también a saltar por la ventana.

Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidnapped and taken to a Parisian whorehouse. However, a disinherited prince, Dudu who tries to rescue her, is himself kidnapped and forced to serve as a male prostitute. The two captives meet there and fall in love. They are taken away by different rich people - he to an Arab "harem," she to a surgeon's home.

Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidnapped and taken to a Parisian whorehouse. However, a disinherited prince, Dudu who tries to rescue her, is himself kidnapped and forced to serve as a male prostitute. The two captives meet there and fall in love. They are taken away by different rich people - he to an Arab "harem," she to a surgeon's home.

Roger Boussinot directed this episode of the French television show Italiques, which features an overview of the art and career of Fantastic Planet illustrator Roland Topor. It aired on August 8, 1974.

La ganadora del concurso Miss Virginidad Mundial se casa, se escapa de su marido masoquista y termina involucrada en un mundo de libertinaje.

The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now deceased sister). Wanda doesn't know yet that this room will change all her life shortly after it slightly opens a mysterious forbidden door.

The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now deceased sister). Wanda doesn't know yet that this room will change all her life shortly after it slightly opens a mysterious forbidden door.

En el planeta Ygam, los Draags, humanoides azules extremadamente avanzados tecnológica y espiritualmente, consideran a los diminutos Oms, seres humanos descendientes de los habitantes de Terra, como animales ignorantes. Los que viven en la esclavitud son tratados como simples mascotas y utilizados para entretener a los niños Draag; los que viven escondidos en los hostiles desiertos del planeta son periódicamente cazados y masacrados sin piedad como si fueran alimañas.

En el planeta Ygam, los Draags, humanoides azules extremadamente avanzados tecnológica y espiritualmente, consideran a los diminutos Oms, seres humanos descendientes de los habitantes de Terra, como animales ignorantes. Los que viven en la esclavitud son tratados como simples mascotas y utilizados para entretener a los niños Draag; los que viven escondidos en los hostiles desiertos del planeta son periódicamente cazados y masacrados sin piedad como si fueran alimañas.

Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Recovering, the young lady puts him up at her house, as he has run out of places to live. He joins a Parisian sporting team and seems to have transferred his bad luck to a corrupt television boss who is attempting to manipulate the game so that Alfred's Paris team loses.

Feature film.

Klein obtuvo el premio Jean Vigo con Polly Maggoo, su primer largometraje de ficción. Utilizando la animación, los números musicales y la foto fija, realiza una crónica ácida de la realidad, que sigue siendo válida en la actualidad. Se trata de una sátira elegante del mundo de la moda a través del retrato glamouroso y grotesco de una joven originaria de Brooklyn, exitosa modelo en París, que se convierte en el tema central del programa de televisión ¿Quién es usted?.

Una serie de individuos mudos plasman visualmente sus pasiones y traumas. Especie de preludio artístico de lo que sería posteriormente la película "El planeta salvaje". Se trata de una pequeña producción de muy bajo presupuesto cuyo guión, escrito por Laloux y Topor, fue inspirado por los internos de un centro psiquiátrico.

Una serie de individuos mudos plasman visualmente sus pasiones y traumas. Especie de preludio artístico de lo que sería posteriormente la película "El planeta salvaje". Se trata de una pequeña producción de muy bajo presupuesto cuyo guión, escrito por Laloux y Topor, fue inspirado por los internos de un centro psiquiátrico.

Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings inspired by ""théâtre panique/ the panic theater", includes Fernando Arrabal, Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Report from the second free expression festival organized at the American Cultural Center, Boulevard Raspail, in May 1965. The shows, all happenings inspired by ""théâtre panique/ the panic theater", includes Fernando Arrabal, Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Este film narra, mediante el escrito del belga Jacques Sternberg, esa fascinación morbosa pero poética que el ser humano siente hacia la muerte.

Este film narra, mediante el escrito del belga Jacques Sternberg, esa fascinación morbosa pero poética que el ser humano siente hacia la muerte.