Stealing Klimt
6.8
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.
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Cast
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Jane Chablani Director · Martin Smith Writer Ulli Bonnekamp Cinematographer
Budget $320K · United States release April 21, 2009 · Produced in Austria, United States
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Budget
$320,000
Production
Poppy Pictures
Production
Austria · United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
United Kingdom · May 15, 2007
Theatrical
United States · April 21, 2009
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Germany
June 24, 2007 · Theatrical
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