Language:
French
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Plurielles
Angaben zur Quelle:
14 (2009) 126-134
Keywords:
Losey, Joseph.
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Jews in motion pictures
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
States that Joseph Losey's film, "Mr. Klein" (1976), although based on history, refuses the limits and constraints of historical reconstruction; it reflects on individual responsibility as well as on the moral effects of indifference. The film, which loosely portrays the Vel d'Hiv roundup in Paris in July 1942, and the fate of a non-Jewish man who is confused with a Jew, also deals with the borders of identity. These borders were deadly in the period of the Vichy regime, when the Other, the Jewish pariah and scapegoat, was excluded from society, deported and killed. The force of the film lies in the fact that it shows the borders of identity as impossible to define.
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