Director · Producer

Joseph Losey

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13:00: average
26 min: in total

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Monsieur Klein

Joseph Losey · 1976

Set in occupied Paris in 1942, Monsieur Klein follows art dealer Robert Klein as he is mistaken for a Jewish namesake and drawn into a vortex of suspicion, paperwork, and erasure. Directed by Joseph Losey and starring Alain Delon, it uses Kafkaesque structure and austere craft to explore identity as a fragile, administratively conferred status — culminating not in revelation, but in the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup and deportation to Auschwitz.

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The Servant

Joseph Losey · 1963

Joseph Losey’s 1963 adaptation of Robin Maugham’s novella, scripted by Harold Pinter, charts the slow, chilling inversion of power between a wealthy Londoner and his manservant. Shot at Elstree Studios by Douglas Slocombe and edited by Reginald Mills, it uses minimal dialogue, precise framing, and psychological tension to dissect British class structures without exposition or judgment.