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Why was she playing 'The Internationale'?


For no good reason a woman starts playing the piano. You can see Nazis in the background. Someone keeps telling her she's nuts to play that.
But why would she. Playing that tune was a ticket to Auschwitz.

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Defiance?

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

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There are things that I didn't grasp, quite a few, actually.
But this one is obvious: He had taken the score from the apartment of the other Klein, whoever he was. And then he found it when the police had taken most of his items, and probably couldn't read musics. And the lady touching the keyboard is anything but a piano player. Maybe not everyone by then knew the tone?

Or, I could say, Klein was hoping to get a hint on who the other Klein might have been.

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Delon has found the music in the other Klein's flat, he admits he can't play music and as she can she plays it.

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