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Stealing Klimt recounts the struggle by 90-year-old Maria Altmann to recover five Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from her family by the Nazis in Vienna. From the end of the War up until last year, these paintings hung in the Austrian National Gallery. The film covers Maria's early life in glittering fin-de-siècle Vienna, her dramatic escape from Nazi terror and her courageous fight to recover the five Klimt's against all the odds. Maria's fight to reclaim the paintings eventually took her to the United States Supreme Court and pitted her not just against Austria but also against the US Government which asked the Supreme Court to reject her case. After Maria finally emerged victorious in 2006, one of the paintings - the "Golden Portrait" of Maria's aunt, Adele Bloch Bauer - was sold to cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder for $135m, becoming the world's most expensive painting ever sold. The other four paintings were recently auctioned at Christie's for record prices.
$320,000
May 15, 2007
Poppy Pictures
16 people
Maria Altmann
Self
Acting
Michael J. Bazyler
Self
Acting
Hubertus Czernin
Self
Acting
Gerbert Frodl
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Elisabeth Gehrer
Self (archive footage)
Acting
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
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Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
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Willi Korte
Self
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Sophie Lillie
Self
Acting
Jonathan Petropoulos
Self
Acting
E. Randol Schoenberg
Self
Acting
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Self (archive footage)
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