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

Reenactment of the Vel d'Hive incident

At the end of the movie, the Jews are rounded up by the French police. A large number of Jews, both children and adults, were gathered at the Vel d'Hive in Paris and packed into trains and taken to Nazi concentration camps. This is a reenactment of the Verse d'Hive incident, which actually occurred in Paris in 1942. This incident is now known as important evidence of the genocide of Jews in Europe, and has been featured in films such as `` Children of the Yellow Star '' (Rose Bosch, 10) and `` Sarah's Key '' (Gilles Paquet-Blanner, 10). It is also the subject of.

More than 2,000 extras dispatched from the Jewish church participated in filming the roundup scene. Many of the extras had actually experienced this era, and it is said that during the filming, some felt panicked remembering those days. There were many people on the staff who knew about that time. Alexandre Tronel, who worked on film art, is one of them. Troner, a Hungarian Jew, hid out in a monastery deep in the mountains to hide from the Nazis during the filming of Marcel Carné's ` `The Ceilings '' (1945), where he gave instructions to the staff and completed the set. This is a famous story.

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By the way, the famous art director for Rosie's films is Richard MacDonald, who has collaborated with him on many works such as " The Servant " (1963) and " Sunset " (1968), but "The Mr. Klein" is the first time that the veteran Torrone directed Rosie. Join the group. Alain Delon's home filled with artwork, a mansion where Jeanne Moreau and others gather, and the velodrome that serves as the final stage are all beautifully created.

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