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- Mr. Klein [videorecording] / by Bergé, Francine,actor.; Berto, Juliet,actor.; Bouise, Jean,actor.; Delon, Alain,1935-actor,film producer.; Fisher, Gerry,cinematographer.; Flon, Suzanne,1918-2005,actor.; Girotti, Massimo,1918-2003,actor.; Lanoë, Henri,editor of moving image work.; Lonsdale, Michaël,1931-2020,actor.; Losey, Joseph,film director.; Macchi, Egisto,composer (expression); Moreau, Jeanne,1928-2017,actor.(CARDINAL)344361; Porte, Pierre,1944-composer (expression); Solinas, Franco,1927-1982,screenwriter.; Adel Productions,production company.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269; Lira Films,production company.; Nova Films,production company.;
Director of photography, Gerry Fisher ; editor, Henri Lanoë ; music, Egisto Macchi, Pierre Porte.Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto, Jean Bouise, Suzanne Flon, Massimo Girotti, Michel Lonsdale."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 France during World War II who makes a tidy profit buying up paintings from his desperate Jewish clients. As Klein searches for a Jewish with the same name for whom he has been mistaken, he finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare in which his identity seems to dissolve and the forces of history to close in on him. Met with considerable controversy on its release for its portrayal of the real-life wrongdoings of the Vichy government, this haunting, disturbingly beautiful film shivers with existential dread as it traces a society's descent into fascistic fear and inhumanity"--Container.Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); monaural.César Awards: Best Film, Best Director, 1977- Subjects: Detective and mystery films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Historical films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Art dealers; False personation; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Identity (Philosophical concept);
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