The movie
Mr. Klein
directed by Joseph Losey, starring Alain Delon and Jeanne Moreau, takes place in Nazi occupied France. Robert Klein is a wealthy French Catholic art dealer, using the wartime condition as an opportunity for profiteering. He discovers that a Jew had stolen his identity as a disguise for his war resistance activities. He becomes passionately fixated on finding the impostor. Little does he realize that the burden he was about to assume would consume him. At the end, he finds himself deep in a world of mistrust and injustice. What is most intriguing about the movie is that the identity roles have changed. The issue of trading identities among Jews who fled persecutions has always been a common phenomenon. Only now, the French Catholic art dealer is in a fight for his life to prove that his identity is in fact the same one he claims it to be.