Alain Delon
Mr. Klein
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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 ...
- $3,500,000
- Egisto Macchi, Pierre Porte
- Alain Delon
- 22 May 1976#TAB#(Cannes), 23 September 1976 (Italy), 27 October 1976 (France)
Sep 23, 1976 · 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.
- (8.5K)
- Joseph Losey
- PG
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sep 6, 2019 · In “Mr. Klein,” Alain Delon plays a man caught in an existential mystery, during the Second World War, when he is mistaken for a Jew who shares his name. Photograph by Collection Christophel ...
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 in Paris, Klein comes under ...
- (18)
- Joseph Losey
- PG
- Alain Delon
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.
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In 1942, in Paris, Mr. Robert Klein is a bon-vivant art dealer that exploits French Jews that need to raise money selling their artworks. 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.
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.
