Mr. Klein
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Set in Vichy France, the Kafkaesque narrative follows an apparently Gentile Parisian art dealer who is seemingly mistaken for a Jewish man of the same name and targeted in the Holocaust, unable to prove his identity. [4] The film is a French and Italian co-production, [3] and premiered at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger.
- (9K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Joseph Losey
- 1976-09-23
Sep 6, 2019 · Set in Paris in early 1942, during the German Occupation, it’s the story of a Parisian Catholic man named Robert Klein (Alain Delon) whose identity becomes confused with that of a Jewish...
Oct 9, 2019 · In Joseph Losey's 1976 classic "Mr. Klein," French star Alain Delon is at his best as an art dealer who takes advantage of Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Paris.
In 1942, in Paris, Mr. Robert Klein is a bon-vivant art dealer that exploits French Jews that need to raise money selling their artwork. When he receives a Jewish newspaper, he discovers that there is a man with the same name in Paris and he goes to the police to report the mistake.
In Occupied France, Mr. Klein (Alain Delon) exploits the situation of the Jews by buying and selling their works of art. When a Jewish man of the same name surfaces...
- (18)
- Mystery & Thriller
- PG
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One of the crowning achievements of blacklisted Hollywood director Joseph Losey’s European exile, Mr. Klein is a spellbinding modernist mystery that puts a chilling twist on the wrong-man thriller. Alain Delon delivers a standout performance as Robert Klein, a decadent art dealer in Paris during World War II who makes a tidy profit buying up ...
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