Mr Klein (1976)

"We are forced to sell."
"But I am not forced to buy."

Watching Mr Klein made me depressed. The name 'Klein' can be used by a French, German, or Jewish. Alain Delon plays 'Robert Klein', an art dealer who in this story (set in Paris - 1942) buys
at a cheapest price from the Jewish who are forced to flee from France. His name cards are all over Paris, and another Robert Klein, who is a Jewish and Resistance member, uses the card to give himself a false address. Klein begins to receive mails intended for the other Klein and later the police give him troubles. For his namesake, Klein tries to prove that he is 100% French and his effort to find the Jewish man turns into a dangerous obsession which will lead to his ruin.

The opening scene which shows a woman is being measured like a horse is interesting and sad. Basically I can't tell the difference from one European from another, but I have some observant friends who can do that. Also touching is when the woman on the bus wondering why the French police can give them into the Germans, and Klein only can answer her with "Je ne sais rien."

I would like to know what happens to Klein in the end, but most likely he will die, for he is transported without papers at all. He should stop a while to get the his grandmother's birth certificate from his solicitor, shouldn't he? But like him, I don't want to lose the other Mr Klein either. I want to see what he looks like. Finally the other Mr Klein has made Mr Klein pay for what he has done to the Jewish people.