“The Mr. Klein” A faint chain of history and memory projected by director Joseph Losey

Rosie's experience of Hollywood's "Red Scare"

The fear of being excluded before you know it and the indifference of those around you. What is depicted here is also an event that director Joseph Losey himself experienced. In the 1950s, in the midst of the Cold War in the United States, a movement to eliminate all communists, the so-called "Red Scare", raged, resulting in many victims. One of those victims was Rosie. He started his career in the theater world in New York in the 1930s, and eventually moved to Hollywood, where he directed one after another, including `` The Boy with the Green Hair '' (1948) and ``M'' (51), but he never stopped working in ``The Pistol.'' During the filming of "The Man Who Sells" (52), his name was mentioned by the Un-American Activities Committee. Joseph Losey's name was blacklisted, effectively banishing him from Hollywood.

After losing his job in America, he emigrated to England. However, the blacklist was still very effective in Britain, and Rosie was initially forced to operate under a false name. Despite this, he continued to work steadily, steadily building a career as a British film director, and in 1967 won the Special Jury Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for `` Events .'' In 1970, he won the Palme d'Or at the same film festival for `` Love ''. Joseph Losey's name is recognized as a world-famous master.

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``The Mr. Klein'' was originally planned to be directed by Costa-Gavras, who specializes in political subjects. The screenplay was written by Franco Solinas, an Italian who wrote Gavras' `` Martial Law '' (1972) and Gillo Pontecorvo's `` Battle of Algiers '' (1966). Rosie, who replaced Gavras as the director, worked with Solinas to complete the script, but the outline of the story was already in place by the time he was approached by the director.

It cannot be said that Rosie reflected her own memories of the Red Scare in this film. However, he himself admits that the atmosphere in occupied Paris was very similar to that in the United States in 1952. What happens once you are blacklisted? How do humans behave in a place ruled by fear? He knew the answer better than anyone.

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