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  • 5/2/2025
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of he | dG1fVDA1alBKSWxmMmc
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00:00Your son, the lawyer, how is he?
00:09Some letters I found in my sister's belongings.
00:11I need advice from someone I can trust.
00:14Can't you just help me on the side?
00:15There is no on the side.
00:18This is a full-time job.
00:19Oh, how can you see out of those glasses?
00:21You're filthy.
00:25Here she is.
00:26My aunt, Adela.
00:29Painted by Gustav Klimt.
00:31That's quite a painting.
00:32She was taken off the walls of our home by the Nazis.
00:37And since then, she's been hanging in the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna.
00:41And now you'd like to be reunited.
00:42Wouldn't that be lovely?
00:44And then there's justice.
00:46You really think a painting that ends up as a fridge magnet will ever leave Austria?
00:50It'd be a mistake not to take a look.
00:52Could you drive a little faster?
00:53We're going to be there four hours early.
00:54But I want to buy perfume and cognac in duty-free.
00:58I never thought I'd come back.
01:00That's our home on my wedding night.
01:02Half of Vienna was here.
01:05Mrs. Oldman, welcome to Vienna.
01:07They're going to put as many obstacles in your way as possible.
01:10We were going to try and find a copy of your aunt's will.
01:12I could have searched for the file on my own, you know.
01:14I wasn't going to miss all the fun.
01:16This is like a James Bond film.
01:18And you're Sean Connery.
01:20The painting belongs to Mrs. Oldman's family.
01:23She is the Mona Lisa of Austria.
01:26We will fight you till the end for something we believe is ours.
01:30They destroyed my family.
01:32They killed my friends.
01:33And they forced me to abandon the people and the places that I love.
01:37I won't let them humiliate me again.
01:41Here to file a lawsuit.
01:42We're taking the Austrian government to court.
01:44Have a nice day.
01:45There's no way you're going away.
01:49We didn't come here to eat cake.
01:52All along you have thwarted me and closed the doors in my face.
01:56Ladies and gentlemen, this is a moment in history.
01:59Once the past has been put to right, we will not have come here in vain.
02:04People see a masterpiece by one of Austria's finest artists.
02:14But I see a picture of my aunt.
02:16A woman who used to talk to me about life.
02:19We should be reunited with what is rightfully ours.
02:24Andy, can't you drive a little faster?
02:26Look, the chocolate on your donut is melting.
02:28Oh, my God.

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