Watch: Mr. Klein 1976 123movies, Full Movie Online – Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing discrimination because of laws enacted by the French government are desperate to sell valuable works of art – and it is easy for him to get them at bargain prices. His cosy life is disrupted when he realizes that there is another Robert Klein in Paris – a Jew with rather mysterious behaviour. Soon he attracts the close – and menacing – attention of the police to the art trader..
Plot: Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
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Losey’s best film since THE SERVANT.
By far the most popular kind of film produced in 70s France was the policier, in which dogged detectives and po-faced policemen plodded through dour crime narratives after charismatic criminals. Generally reactionary, many featured Alain Delon, along with Jean-Paul Belmondo, France’s biggest star.MONSIEUR KLEIN is a very different Delon policier. Set in Occupied Paris, its police are Gestapo stooges doggedly and po-facedly seeking out phoney Frenchmen, with one of whom Klein, Catholic, collaborationist-befriending, art-dealing war-profiteer, seems to be confused, with inevitable consequences.
Losey’s nausea-inducing camerawork, his use of ugly colour and shadows which literally swallows up the brightest of film-stars, the recreation of Nazi France, the playing with ideas of play, the combining of exciting thriller with Borges and Kafka, makes this one of the best films of the 70s.
Delon’s icy portrayal
Paris art dealer in Vichy France (Alain Delon) who has a small but significant part in the heist of European works of art finds that he is under suspicion after he begins to investigate another man with his name who has a subscription to a government sanctioned Jewish newspaper. Of course, the police have the names and addresses of all the paper’s readers, and are also busy organizing for the expulsion of the entire Jewish population of Paris, many of whom are forced to sell their cherished paintings for near nothing, which are then auctioned off to eager buyers. The auctions are formal affairs, dressed up to legitimize the robbery that took place. At the same time, Delon’s curiosity about this other man with his name and appearance (Robert Klein) becomes an investigation for him to prove his own identity and roots. In the midst of it all is a brilliantly and subtly portrayed decay of society, especially in a memorably filmed anti-semitic cabaret scene, where German officers mingle with the French upper middle-class, laughing along to an incredibly insulting act.
Original Language fr
Runtime 2 hr 3 min (123 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director Joseph Losey
Writer Franco Solinas, Fernando Morandi, Costa-Gavras
Actors Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé
Country France, Italy
Awards 3 wins & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Eastmancolor, Paris (color) (as Eastmancolor), Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France (as Franay L.T.C. St.Cloud)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format DCP Digital Cinema Package (restored version), 35 mm