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One of the best endings I've seen


Mr. Klein has one of the few truly memorable, unforced twisted endings that I've seen in the cinema. Losey is brilliant.

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Yes, the ending makes the film. And it's a rare case with a twist ending where you don't feel as if it's included solely to be impressive -- it feels more like an anchor has been dropped, and it's a kind of inevitable fatalism; it had to happen this way.

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Agreed completely. The movie works all the way until that point. A masterpiece of understatement. I wouldn't even call it a twist so much as well... fate.

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... tell me how the movie ended?

A friend of mine missed the ending and wanted me to find it out. She said the last thing she saw was that Alain Delon was...

MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD

... deported to a concentration camp or something like that. What happened next?

Thanks a lot!

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thanks :-)

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Unquestionably amongst the best endings I have ever seen. As other posters have said, it manages to deliver a devestating twist with a great intelligence and wit without being slightly contrived. In fact, it is probably the only big twist (if you will) ending I have seen which was truly clever. If there were only more films like it.

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As a Jewish man, I must say, this is one of the worst movies ever made.

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As a Jewish man, I must say, this is one of the worst movies ever made.


Since you're speaking as a Jewish man, I'd like to know what was so offensive to Judaism in this movie.

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

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As a Jewish man, I must say, this is one of the worst movies ever made.

As a non-Jewish man, it was one of the few 'plight of the WWII Jews' movies I found tolerable.

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He became your wife?

Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.

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