• Title:
• Stealing Klimt

• Director:
• Jane Chablani

• English

• United Kingdom, 92 minutes

• Venue:
• Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema and
  Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater

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Stealing Klimt tells the story of 90-year-old Maria Altmann’s struggle to recover five Klimt paintings stolen from her family by the Nazis in 1938 Vienna. The paintings have been hanging in the Austrian National Gallery since the war and Ms. Altmann was alerted to the expropriation of her family’s paintings 50 years later, in 1998. This stunning documentary highlights Maria’s early life in Vienna before fleeing from the Nazis, and her long and courageous fight to reclaim the Klimt paintings. Amazingly, Maria’s fight eventually leads her to the US Supreme Court – where she is pitted not just against Austria, but also against the US Government. After Altmann’s victory, she sold one of Klimt’s most recognizable and lauded works “the Golden Portrait” (the subject of which was Maria’s aunt) in 2006 to Ronald Lauder. This $135 million sale became the most expensive painting ever sold.

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