Stealing Klimt / written by Martin Smith ; director: Jane Chablani ; producers: Tim Schwarz, Judy Parkinson, Gilonne d'Origny ; executive producer for Films of Record: Roger Graef.
This is the unusual story of a beautiful elegant woman Maria Altmann, and her incredible courage and tenacity to reclaim 5 Klimt paintings from the Austrian government, which were stolen by the Nazis from her family. A David and Goliath tale that takes her from the glittering world of fin-de-siecle Vienna through Nazi terror in Europe to the United States Supreme Court. And after 60 years of state deception she won! Austria finally returned the paintings to Maria in 2006.
