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Paris, 1942. Art dealer Robert Klein profits from buying valuable possessions cheaply from Jewish families desperate to flee occupied France. When he begins receiving mail intended for another Robert Klein—a Jewish man sharing his name—his attempts to uncover the stranger's identity draw him into an increasingly unsettling labyrinth of bureaucracy, suspicion and mistaken identity, where the distinction between hunter and hunted begins to disappear. Directed by Joseph Losey from a screenplay by Franco Solinas, Mr. Klein is a masterful psychological thriller that examines complicity, identity and moral indifference under the Vichy regime. Alain Delon delivers one of the finest performances of his career, anchoring a film that combines Kafkaesque paranoia with meticulous historical detail. Winner of three César Awards, including Best Film and Best Director, it remains one of the most powerful cinematic explorations of occupied France.