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Release year: 2015

Storyline

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

Top credits

Directors

Simon Curtis

Writers

Cast

Helen Mirren — Maria Altmann
Ryan Reynolds — Randy Schoenberg
Daniel Brühl — Hubertus Czernin
Katie Holmes — Pam Schoenberg

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Did you know

• Oprah Winfrey was, for ten years, the owner of Gustav Klimt's second-most-famous portrait of the subject of the painting unofficially known as "Woman in Gold." The second most famous Klimt portrait of Bloch-Bauer was officially titled "Adele Bloch-Bauer ll." Winfrey reportedly bought the painting anonymously in 2006, when Christie's sold it at auction for $87.9 million, during the same auction session when the subject of this film was sold, along with four other Klimt paintings owned by Maria Altmann's family. In 2016, Winfrey sold the 54"x54" painting, "Adele Bloch-Bauer II," to a Chinese collector for $150 million.

• Gustav Bloch-Bauer, Maria Altmann's father, died two weeks after the Gestapo raided their family home, according to Maria. Her uncle Ferdinand died penniless in Switzerland in 1945.

• The real E. Randol Schoenberg is seen in the final scene of Dame Helen Mirren (Maria Altmann, his client) going around and imagining her old apartment, who looks to raise his glass in a toast directly at the camera - so, to her, Altmann's point-of-view.