KLIMT

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• Release Year: 2006
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane, Saffron Burrows, Sandra Ceccarelli, Nikolai Kinski, Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Joachim Bissmeier, Ernst Stötzner, Paul Hilton, Annemarie Düringer, Irina Wanka, Florentín Groll, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, Marion Mitterhammer, Alexander Strobele, Georgia Reeve, Rainer Friedrichsen, Denis Petkovic, Stephan Paryla, Klaus Ofczarek, Georg Friedrich, Daniel Keberle, Miriam Heard, Erwin Leder, Nicole Beutler, Fritz von Friedl, Karl Fischer, Gunther Gillian, Alexandra Hilverth, Martin Brambach, Antje Charlotte Sieglin, Julie Bräuning, Ariella Hirshfeld, Verena Mundhenke, Mark Zak, Nico Bartholy, Marc Schötteldreier, Xaver Hutter, Roland Jaeger, Lothar Jansky, David Oberkogler, Franz Robert Ceeh, Rainer Frieb, Hagnot Elischka, Klaus Händl, Christian Weinberger, Ina-Alice Kopp, Johannes Seilern, Susanne Wohlsein, Rose-Lise Bonin, Nadiv Molcho, Ilan Molcho, Thaddäus Reich, Poldi Salomon, Xialong Ye, Sanlong Ye, Piet Fuchs, Katie Pfleghar, Tom Trambow, Raoul Ruiz, Gilbert Adair, Herbert Vesely
• Director: Raoul Ruiz
• Runtime: 0
• Media Format: Movie