In this French crime film, set during the time of the Gulf War, an elderly German tourist is murdered in Paris by junk dealer Joseph Katz (Pinkas Braun), a friend of Paris detective Sam Bellamy (singer Patrick Bruel). Romantically involved with the victim's daughter Emma Guter (Isabella Ferrari), Bellamy covers up the crime he witnessed. Joseph then mysteriously vanishes, and Bellamy heads for Berlin where the victim's possessions are auctioned. After Bellamy finds the source of the well-hidden traffic in art stolen by Nazis from French Jews, he discovers a Nazi war criminal is blackmailing past associates. Incorporating background from journalist Hector Feliciano's Lost Museum, the film is adapted from Guy Konopnicki's novel, Pas de Kaddish pour Sylberstein (No Kaddish for Sylberstein).
Acting
Pinkas Braun plays two faces of evil with chilling ease.
Production
Berlin auction scenes ooze authentic post-reunification grime.
Writing
Adapted from journalist Feliciano's real Nazi art looting research.
Director
Alexandre Arcady
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Hector Feliciano's 'The Lost Museum', which exposed how French museums still hold 2,000+ Nazi-looted works unreturned to Jewish families.
Title 'K' refers to both Katz and Konopnicki's novel; director Arcady is Algerian-French Jewish, making this personal excavation of Vichy complicity.
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