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[MR. KLEIN] This can't be happening with me... right?
|| MR. KLEIN || 1976 || Original Movie || Crime, Mystery, Drama, WW2, Holocaust ||
This movie was truly surreal, and I had to read movie critics about it, to make it sense, but after that... WOW. Also makes me wants to buy a bunch of Kafka novels, because if his novels are all like this, I would probably enjoy them.
The story is about Robert Klein, a french art collector taking advantage of Jews desperately trying to sell artworks to raise cash in order to flee from France. But then one day a Jewish newspaper arrives at his door: someone subscribed him to the paper, and it turns out there is another Robert Klein in Paris, a Jew who is already sought by the police. To prevent his social image to be ruined, Robert Klein wants to find this other Robert Klein to make his name clear...
In his own time this movie was controversial, especially in France, because it pointed out how people were compliant to hand over the Jews to the local authorities, averting their eyes to their suffering, and even taking advantage of them. Which is usually very common pattern in countries that were under Nazi occupation. If you weren't a jew, you were safe. If you didn't associate yourself with Jews, you were safe. If it's not happening with you, it's not your problem. People don't like to be reminded of such shame of their own history.
This movie was truly surreal, and I had to read movie critics about it, to make it sense, but after that... WOW. Also makes me wants to buy a bunch of Kafka novels, because if his novels are all like this, I would probably enjoy them.
The story is about Robert Klein, a french art collector taking advantage of Jews desperately trying to sell artworks to raise cash in order to flee from France. But then one day a Jewish newspaper arrives at his door: someone subscribed him to the paper, and it turns out there is another Robert Klein in Paris, a Jew who is already sought by the police. To prevent his social image to be ruined, Robert Klein wants to find this other Robert Klein to make his name clear...
In his own time this movie was controversial, especially in France, because it pointed out how people were compliant to hand over the Jews to the local authorities, averting their eyes to their suffering, and even taking advantage of them. Which is usually very common pattern in countries that were under Nazi occupation. If you weren't a jew, you were safe. If you didn't associate yourself with Jews, you were safe. If it's not happening with you, it's not your problem. People don't like to be reminded of such shame of their own history.
Related literature and movies for myself to not forget:
E. T. A. Hoffmann: Die Elixiere des Teufels
Franz Kafka: Der Prozeß
Franz Kafka: Die Verwandlung
Franz Kafka: Das Schloss
And I think this makes me want to watch my own country's media take regarding the Holocaust and touching the non-jew civilian compliance topics. Collecting some here, so I will remember.
Utószezon (1966)
Társasutazás (1985)
Budapesti Tavasz (1955)
Nussbaum 95736 (2017)
Jób Lázadása (1983)
A Létezés Eufóriája (2017)
Sorstalanság (2005)
1945 (2017)
Nagyi Project (2017)
Saul fia (2015)