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A documentary. An exhibition conceived to redress the tragic history of a Jewish art dealer forced to escape Germany sparked a scandal rife with legal battles and accusations, exposing the political and moral crisis surrounding the return of artworks stolen during the scond world war.

Director : Jamie Kastner

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 105

Language : English, German

The life and times of a Nazi art thief - part 2

A mini documentary series. It unpacks the decades-spanning crimes of Bruno Lohse. In 1939, the Nazis commenced the century’s most sprawling art theft. As Hitler’s armies swept across Europe so did they begin snatching up art and objects from Jewish homes, galleries, museums, and private collections. A depot was set up by the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (ERR) at the Jeu de Paume in Paris to receive these works; over four years, it saw the delivery of more than 21,900 artworks. This entire operation of plunder, said historian Jonathan Petropoulos, was carried out with “industrial efficiency.”

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 55

Language : English

The life and times of a Nazi art thief - part 1

Director : Hugo Macgregor

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 118

Language : English

Auction

A feature film. The film follows a art appraiser who works for an auction house. As boldly assured in his professional expertise as he is unflaggingly cool and collected with his colleagues his routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost work by Egon Schiele, a masterwork that had gone missing decades earlier following its confiscation by Nazi officials. Initially skeptical that any such undiscovered painting could still be recovered, he is convinced of its authenticity. Based on the true story of Egon Schiele's painting "Wlted sunflowers"

Director : Pascal Bonitzer

Production Year : 2024

Duration : 91

Language : English, French, German

The Last Vermeer

A feature film.Whilw a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, Han van Meegeren was hosting soirées and selling Dutch art treasures to Hermann Goring and other top Nazis. Following the war, the J ew becomes an investigator assigned the task of identifying and redistributing stolen art, resulting in the flamboyant van Meegeren being accused of collaboration , a crime punishable by death. But, despite mounting evidence the investigator, with the aid of his assistant , becomes increasingly convinced of Han's innocence and finds himself in the position of fighting to save his...

Director : Dan Friedkin

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 118

Language : English

Righteous Thieves

A thriller. The head of a secret organization assembles a crew to steal back artwork plundered by Nazis during World War II..

Director : Anthony Nardolillo

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 91

Language : English

The European Dream

A documentary. The film tells the story of an collection which was robbed in world war two. This a journey back in time to the cultural and artistic world of the Jews of Berlin pre-world War II. Joined this journey Roberto Graetz, whose grandfather owned a collection of 250 artworks. On that journey we encountered the world of art saturated with struggles, and attempts to control those works of art today, to the dream and its eradication.

Director : Mooly Landesman

Production Year : 2023

Duration : 75

Language : English, German, Hebrew, Spanish

Valiant Hearts

A feature film. It follows the odyssey of six Jewish children hidden during World War Two who found refuge . in the Chambord castle and its park , among the hidden works of art of the Louvre. The main character of the film is based on Rose Valland, French art historian, member of the French Resistance who recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France. The film was shown at the Jewish Film Festival ,2022

Director : Mona Achache

Production Year : 2021

Duration : 87

Language : French

The Man who Saved the Louvre

A documentary film. At the dawn of World War II, a resistance group organizes an incredible exfiltration of masterpieces from the Louvre Museum to save it off the Nazis’ hands. The man leading the operation is Jacques Jaujard, museum’s director, using his knowledge of the system and his audacity to serve a universal cause: saving the world heritage.

Director : Pierre Pochart, Jean-Pierre Devillers

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 60

Language : English

Also Life is an Art - The Case of Max Emden גם החיים הם אומנות-סיפורו של מקס אמדן

A documentary film. Hardly anyone knows the name Max Emden today. Born in Hamburg in 1874, the son of a respected Jewish merchant family, Emden was a department store king who built an exceptional art collection. In 1928, Emden moved to Switzerland, but the Nazis gradually confiscated his assets and he died impoverished in 1940. Almost 80 years later, Max Emden’s heirs are still fighting for compensation. With the help of explosive documents, private film footage, and historical testimonies, the film recounts the rise and destruction of a Hanseatic family through the violence of the Nazi regime.

Director : Eva Gerberding, André Schäfer

Production Year : 2018

Duration : 90

Language : English, German

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