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Stealing Klimt (2007)
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.
Updated Nov 16 2015
Cast
Joseph Goebbels
Himself (archive footage) (as Josef Goebbels)
Maria Altmann
Herself
Michael J. Bazyler
Himself
Hubertus Czernin
Himself
Gerbert Frodl
Himself (archive footage)
Elisabeth Gehrer
Herself (archive footage)
Willi Korte
Himself
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Crew
Walter Ludwig
Transportation Coordinator
Ulli Bonnekamp
Cinematography
Bob Schuck
Sound
Roger Graef
Executive Producer
Tim Schwarzmeier
Executive Producer
Jane Chablani
Director
Martin Smith
Writer
Martin Smith
Executive Producer
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