Stealing Klimt
2007 | 92m | English
Popularity: 0.9 (history)
| Director: | Jane Chablani |
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| Writer: | Martin Smith |
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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. | |
| Release Date: | May 15, 2007 |
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| Director: | Jane Chablani |
| Writer: | Martin Smith |
| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | historical |
| Production Companies | Poppy Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $320,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: May 07, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Name | Job |
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| Jane Chablani | Director |
| Martin Smith | Writer |
| Jane Bevan | Line Producer |
| Chris Elliott | Music |
| Shelagh Brady | Editor |
| Paul Dosaj | Editor |
| Judy Parkinson | Production Manager |
| Joseph Keppler | Sound |
| Hunter Moore | Sound |
| Roger Pietschmann | Sound |
| Bob Schuck | Sound |
| Niklas Tesch | Sound |
| Walter Ludwig | Transportation Coordinator |
| Michelle Galvin | Production Coordinator |
| Bernhard Hoefer | Director of Photography |
| Simon Fanthorpe | Director of Photography |
| Ulli Bonnekamp | Director of Photography |
| Hubertus Czernin | Thanks |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Gilonne D'Origny | Executive Producer |
| Martin Smith | Executive Producer |
| Tim Schwarzmaier | Executive Producer |
| Roger Graef | Executive Producer |
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