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.

혁명 전 프랑스에서 카닌 후작 데 사데가 감옥에 앉아 글을 쓰면서, 이름이 콜린인 그의 페니스와 대화를 나누며 작품을 구성하는 이야기

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.

When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread.

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

부동산 중개소에서 일하는 조나단(Jonathan Harker: 브루노 간츠 분)은 카르파티아 산맥을 넘어 노스페라투 드라큐라 백작(Count Dracula: 클라우스 킨스키 분)의 성에 다녀올 것을 요청받는다. 정확한 체류일자를 알 수 없는 긴 여정일 뿐아니라, 아직까지도 귀신을 믿는 사람들이 살고 있다는 펜실베니아 마을의 드라큐라 성. 며칠 전부터 알 수 없는 악몽과 불안에 시달린 아내 루시(Lucy Harker: 이사벨 아자니 분)의 만류에도 불구하고 조나단은 드라큐라 백작의 성으로 향한다. 가는 도중, 만나는 이들은 모두가 가지말 것을 권하고 여인숙 주인의 아내가 그에게 준 책에는 드라큐라 백작에 대한 온갖 으시시한 얘기들이 나온다. 그러나 그는 결국 그곳에 도착하여 백작에게 피를 빼앗기고 갇히는 몸이 된다. 한편, 드라큐라 백작은 흑해를 건너 조나단의 아내 루시가 살고 있는 마을에 침입하고 조나단 부부와 마을은 드라큐라 노스페라투의 저주와 그에 대한 두려움에 휩싸이게 되는데.

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.

폴란드 출신의 사무원인 트렐코프스키는 투신자살을 해 죽은 여자가 살았던 파리의 허름한 아파트에 입주를 한다. 별로 친절하지 않은 이웃과 트렐코프스키 사이에 충돌이 자주 일어나고 그는 자신이 느끼는 감정의 심각성을 인지하며 자신이 이로 인한 정신적 압박감으로 인해 자살을 하게 될지도 모른다고 믿게 되는데...

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.

마카베예프 감독의 에로틱 판타지 영화 중 가장 화제가 되었고, 논란이 되었던 작품이다. 캐나다와 프랑스 공동 제작으로 만든 영화로 미스 월드로 뽑힌 여성의 성적 일탈과 칼 마르크스의 동상을 달고 암스테르담 일대의 강을 돌아다니는 배의 여선장이 추구하는 도착적인 성애를 병치시켰다. 제목과는 달리 과격한 영화로 미스 월드의 모험을 통해서 부르주아 사회가 파멸시킨 성의 가치를 확인시키고, 몰락한 혁명의 숙명을 안고 떠도는 배 안에서 여선장이 벌이는 섹스를 통해 죽음의 이미지를 보여준다. 자본주의와 사회주의 모두 진정한 성 해방을 이루는데 실패했다는 마카베예프의 비판이 이 영화에 녹아있다.

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.

고도의 문명을 지닌 거인 드러그족은 옴족을 길들여 벌레처럼 취급한다. 드러그족의 선진 문명을 습득한 주인공 옴족이 탈출하여 다른 옴족들에게 문명이라는 것을 전해 줌으로서 지능이 생긴 옴족들이 드러그의 망상을 분쇄한다. 드러그족의 몸은 청색이고, 눈은 붉게 설정되어 있으며 황량한 배경과 괴이한 동식물이 있고 그들이 사용하는 문자도 나온다.

고도의 문명을 지닌 거인 드러그족은 옴족을 길들여 벌레처럼 취급한다. 드러그족의 선진 문명을 습득한 주인공 옴족이 탈출하여 다른 옴족들에게 문명이라는 것을 전해 줌으로서 지능이 생긴 옴족들이 드러그의 망상을 분쇄한다. 드러그족의 몸은 청색이고, 눈은 붉게 설정되어 있으며 황량한 배경과 괴이한 동식물이 있고 그들이 사용하는 문자도 나온다.

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.

In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of an episode of a vapid TV news documentary series called "Qui êtes-vous?" and is pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country in the Soviet bloc.

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.

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.

What is man? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is.

What is man? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is.