Stealing Klimt

Stealing Klimt

Actors:  Maria Altmann, Michael J. Bazyler, Hubertus Czernin, Gerbert Frodl, Elisabeth Gehrer, Joseph Goebbels

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 escap...