The Tenant
Released: 1976
Drama, Thriller, Horror
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Bernard Fresson, Shelley Winters, Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Raoul Guylad
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Written by: Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski, Roland Topor
Language: English, French
Scenes
In the Roland Topor novel on which this movie is based, Trelkovsky (played by Roman Polanski in the film) fears wetting his pants before he gets to the toilet. The movie shows him using a urinal and then shaking his legs as he walks afterward, as if he has indeed dribbled in his pants. Pee audio is faint.
There is another scene that suggests Trelkovsky has peed himself while sitting at the kitchen table, but it is ambiguous.
Another man is shown peeing in a kitchen sink, with faint audio.
Alternate Titles
The Tenant
L'inquilino del terzo piano
El inquilino (Spanish)
테넌트
Жилец
Der Mieter
El quimérico inquilino