Woman in Gold

Name: Woman in Gold
Genre: Biography, History, Drama
Released: 2015
Duration: 109 min
Cast: Helen Mirren, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Ryan Reynolds, Tatiana Maslany

Simon Curtis20151h 49mBiography, History, Drama

Why we chose it

Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds star in the true story of a fight for justice. Klimt’s golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer hangs in the Belvedere in Vienna, but Maria Altmann, who fled the city in 1938, believes it belongs to her family, and for her it was never only about a painting.

Synopsis

In late-1990s Los Angeles, Maria Altmann, who fled Vienna in 1938, comes across letters suggesting that the Klimt paintings looted from her family never legally became Austria’s property. One of them is the golden portrait of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, among the most famous paintings in the world. She asks a lawyer she knows for help, and he flies to Vienna to claim it.