One day, the local Jewish newspaper, addressed to him, is delivered to his home.
Robert Klein, apparently apolitical and amoral, is a well-to-do art dealer, Roman Catholic and Alsatian by birth, who takes advantage of French Jews who need to sell artworks to raise cash to leave the country. Alain Delon was nominated for Best Actor.
It received widespread acclaim from critics and won three César Awards Best Film, Best Director (Joseph Losey), and Best Production Design ( Alexandre Trauner). The film is a French and Italian co-production, and premiered at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. 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 to prove his identity. Klein') is a 1976 mystery drama film directed by Joseph Losey, produced by and starring Alain Delon in the title role.
