Stealing Klimt

This documentary recounts the struggle by 90-year-old Maria Altmann to recover 5 Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from her family by the Nazis in Vienna. From the end of the War up till 2006 these paintings hung in the Austrian National Gallery. The film also covers Maria's early life in glittering, her dramatic escape from Nazi terror and her courageous fight to recover the five Klimt's against all the odds. Maria's fight to reclaim the paintings eventually took her to the United States Supreme Court and pitted her not just against Austria but also against the US Government which asked the Supreme Court to reject her case.