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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.
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 2007-05-15
- video_camera_front Companies Poppy Pictures
- timer Runtime: 92 Mins
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- info IMDB ID tt1075836
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Maria Altmann
Self
Michael J. Bazyler
Self
Hubertus Czernin
Self
Gerbert Frodl
Self (archive footage)
Elisabeth Gehrer
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Willi Korte
Self
Sophie Lillie
Self
Jonathan Petropoulos
Self
E. Randol Schoenberg
Self
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Self (archive footage)
Monica Strauss
Self
Gottfried Toman
Self
Kurt Waldheim
Self (archive footage)
Tina Walzer
Self
groups Crew
Roger Graef
Executive Producer
Bernhard Hoefer
Director of Photography
Ulli Bonnekamp
Director of Photography
Simon Fanthorpe
Director of Photography
Tim Schwarzmaier
Executive Producer
Shelagh Brady
Editor
Jane Bevan
Line Producer
Michelle Galvin
Production Coordinator
Martin Smith
Executive Producer
Paul Dosaj
Editor
Hubertus Czernin
Thanks
Niklas Tesch
Sound
Martin Smith
Writer
Walter Ludwig
Transportation Coordinator
Jane Chablani
Director
Chris Elliott
Music
Joseph Keppler
Sound
Bob Schuck
Sound
Roger Pietschmann
Sound
Gilonne D'Origny
Executive Producer
Judy Parkinson
Production Manager
Hunter Moore
Sound
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