Stealing Klimt (2007)
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.
Director: Jane Chablani
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Maria Altmann as Self |
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Michael J. Bazyler as Self |
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Hubertus Czernin as Self |
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Gerbert Frodl as Self (archive footage) |
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Elisabeth Gehrer as Self (archive footage) |
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Joseph Goebbels as Self (archive footage) |
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Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) |
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Willi Korte as Self |
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Sophie Lillie as Self |
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Jonathan Petropoulos as Self |
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E. Randol Schoenberg as Self |
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Arthur Seyss-Inquart as Self (archive footage) |
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Monica Strauss as Self |
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Gottfried Toman as Self |
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Kurt Waldheim as Self (archive footage) |
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Tina Walzer as Self |
| Production | Roger Graef | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Bernhard Hoefer | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Simon Fanthorpe | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Ulli Bonnekamp | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Jane Chablani | Director |
| Production | Jane Bevan | Line Producer |
| Production | Gilonne D'Origny | Executive Producer |
| Production | Tim Schwarzmaier | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Chris Elliott | Music |
| Editing | Shelagh Brady | Editor |
| Editing | Paul Dosaj | Editor |
| Production | Judy Parkinson | Production Manager |
| Sound | Joseph Keppler | Sound |
| Sound | Hunter Moore | Sound |
| Sound | Roger Pietschmann | Sound |
| Sound | Bob Schuck | Sound |
| Sound | Niklas Tesch | Sound |
| Crew | Walter Ludwig | Transportation Coordinator |
| Production | Michelle Galvin | Production Coordinator |
| Crew | Hubertus Czernin | Thanks |
| Writing | Martin Smith | Writer |
| Production | Martin Smith | Executive Producer |
