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Monsieur Klein (English: "Mr. Klein") is a 1976 mystery drama film directed by Joseph Losey, produced by and starring Alain Delon in the title role. 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 ...
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 man...
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.
May 10, 2022 · With Losey and Solinas on board and a narrative involving intrigue and hints of police and state corruption, Mr. Klein belongs to the international political thriller genre, one of the hallmarks of seventies cinema. But it is also a very French film of its time, its reflection on identity doubling as historical inquiry.
Monsieur Klein was one of two notable French films made in the mid-1970s - the other being Michel Mitrani's Les Guichets du Louvre (1974) - which dared to depict the most notorious crime of the Vichy regime, the roundup of 13,000 Jews in Paris on 16th-17th July 1942 by the French police.
- Joseph Losey
Mr. Klein. 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 ...
Jul 11, 2010 · Mr. Klein. Joseph Losey’s Monsieur Klein ( Mr. Klein) is one of the exiled American director’s finest accomplishments. Shot in both Paris and Strasbourg between December 1975 and mid-February 1976, this existential thriller was the first of four films that Losey made in France while striving unsuccessfully to secure funding for Harold ...
