The Woman in Gold (2015)

Original title

Woman in Gold

Directed by

Simon Curtis

Genre

drama film, biographical film, trial film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, United States

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 1,465 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly Jewish refugee and her young lawyer sue the Austrian government to recover a famous painting that the Nazis stole from her family before World War II. The case goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

inspiringpoignantreflectivesomberseriousupliftingdeterminedhistorical

What happens

Woman in Gold is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Simon Curtis and written by Alexi Kaye Campbell. The film stars Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Max Irons, Charles Dance, Elizabeth McGovern, and Jonathan Pryce. The film is based on the true story of Maria Altmann, an elderly Jewish refugee living in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, who, together with her young lawyer, Randy Schoenberg, fought the government of Austria for almost a decade to reclaim Gustav Klimt's iconic painting of her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, which was stolen from her relatives by the Nazis in Vienna just prior to World War II. Altmann took her legal battle all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled on the case Republic of Austria v. Altmann (2004). The film was screened in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival on 9 February 2015 and was released in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2015 and in the United States on 1 April. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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