Klein, or is Robert bullshitting everyone and/or himself? Losey plays head games throughout with sly callbacks, people mistaking Mr. Figuring there's another "Robert Klein," he dutifully reports the error and the presumed Jew to the police but no one seems to be able to track down this other Robert Klein, who has vanished without a trace, but everyone he talks to says something along the lines of "Actually, he looked almost exactly like you." Klein's life begins to unravel when a Jewish newspaper with his name on the mailing label arrives at his front door. In one of his best roles, Alain Delon is Robert Klein, a wealthy, apolitical, and amoral Frenchman making a killing as a war profiteer, acquiring valuable works of art for much less than they're worth from French Jews desperate to sell their belongings for whatever they can so they can flee the Nazi-occupied country. KLEIN takes the Kafka stylings of THE TRIAL and some Hitchcockian "wrong man" tropes and puts it in 1942 Vichy France to make it an even more harrowing nightmare scenario. Directed by blacklisted American expat Joseph Losey and written by frequent Gillo Pontecorvo collaborator Franco Solinas with some uncredited script contributions from Costa-Gavras, the French-Italian co-production MR.
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