Director Simon Curtis’s legal film "Woman in Gold" is based on a true story. The film tells the story of the American Jews who fled from Austria fighting to recover the portrait No.1 of Minghua Attila taken from her home by the Nazis during World War II. This unforgettable film speaks to those who want to find everything that was deprived more than 70 years ago.
Fifteen years ago, Maria Altman hired a young lawyer, a family friend, to help her sue the Austrian government to recover the painting, which was on display at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, home to the world's largest Klimt collection.
Fifteen years ago, Maria Altman hired a young lawyer to help her file a lawsuit with the Austrian government to recover the famous painting. This painting is on display at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, which houses the world's richest collection of Klimtizations.
The film portrays the Austrian curator as an arrogant, unyielding man who refuses to return the painting to Altman because he believes the painting belongs to Austria
. He refused to return the painting, thinking he firmly believed that the painting belonged to Austria.
A local Austrian journalist tells Altman her chances of getting the painting back were infinitesimal because "Woman in Gold" was the Mona Lisa of Vienna. But for Altman, it was a family portrait of her Aunt Adele.
An Austrian journalist told Altman her that The chance of it being turned into is very small, because this "lady in golden dress" is the Mona Lisa from Vienna. But for Altman, the painting is a family portrait of her aunt Adele.
Filmmaker Curtis intersperses flashbacks of the dramatic last days before Altman's escape from Vienna during the Nazi rule in 1938, with scenes of the contemporary courtroom drama.
The film producer Curtis intertwined scenes from the eve of the Nazi-ruled Altman's escape from Vienna in 1938 and the contemporary court trial.
Curtis 'film also addresses the much larger issue of victims' need for justice rendered, even 70 years after the Holocaust.
In this film Likedisi also stressed the important role of the trial justice to the victims, even in the Holocaust 70 years have passed now.
"One of the important messages in this film is that we must remember what happened," he said. "The 21st century is a very complicated and unstable place right now, and it is important to remember some of the lessons and some of the terrible mistakes that were made in the 20th century."
One of the most important messages conveyed by the film is that we must remember what happened. He said, "The 21st century has now reached a complex and unstable stage. It is very important to remember the lessons of the past and the terrible mistakes made in the 20th century."
Curtis says he took exceptional care to accurately depict scenes from the persecution of the Jews in Austria on the eve of WWII.
Curtis said he took special care to accurately show the persecution of the Jews in Austria on the eve of WWII .
"We did our best to be as authentic as possible when we were recreating the hideous events of 1938 Vienna. We actually recreated documentary photographs and video of the Germans coming to town, so we did our best to give it as an authentic feel as possible "
When we were recreating the terrible events that occurred in Vienna in 1938, we tried our best to be objective. We did reproduce the scene of the Germans invading the city in old photos and video materials, and we tried our best to give an objective feeling.
10. Helen Mirren offers a textured performance as the refined and spirited octogenarian Maria Altman.
Helen Mirren
plays Randol Schoenberg, an untried attorney in international law at the time, who in 1998 took the case against Austria to the US Supreme Court, and won. Today, Schoenberg is president of the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles. He continues his efforts to reclaim art stolen from Jewish families.
Ryan Reynolds plays Schoenberg, a young lawyer with no experience in the defense of international law at the time. He took the case and filed a lawsuit against the Austrian government in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1998 and won. Schoenberg is now the chairman of the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles. He has been working hard to help Jewish families recover their deprived works of art.
“Immediately after the war, people didn't concentrate on material things,” he explained. “It was rebuilding lives, finding loved ones, figuring out what had happened to them, so I think it did take time for these other issues to subside and for people to focus on the few things that they still could get back and art works are, seven decades later, one of the few things that we can still do something about.
" He said, “Life needs to be rebuilt, looking for lovers, and exploring what happened in the past. So I think it takes time to calm down some things and let people pay attention to the few things that they have not recovered, and art belongs to more than 70 years. The few things we can still work on later."
The world's costliest artwork, Gustav Klimt's portrait of a Viennese lady from 1907 "Adele Bloch-Bauer I," left, hangs in New York's Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art after being unveiled by its new owner, cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder, fa
This priceless treasure of the world, Klimt and the Viennese lady "Minghua Attire" painted in 1907 are now hung in the German and Austrian art museums in the Neue Galerie Museum in New York, unveiled by the cosmetics tycoon Ronald Lauder.
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