Stealing Klimt

2007/05/15 • $320,000 • Released • German, English

Documentary
0.0
1h 32m

Overview

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.

Director : Jane Chablani

Casts

Maria Altmann

Self

Michael J. Bazyler

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Hubertus Czernin

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Gerbert Frodl

Self (archive footage)

Elisabeth Gehrer

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Willi Korte

Self

Sophie Lillie

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Jonathan Petropoulos

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E. Randol Schoenberg

Self

Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Self (archive footage)

Monica Strauss

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Gottfried Toman

Self

Kurt Waldheim

Kurt Waldheim

Self (archive footage)

Tina Walzer

Self

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