Film screening "Woman in Gold" - Commemoration for Memorial Day 2025

On Wednesday 22 January at 17:30, on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, there will be a screening of the film ‘Woman in Gold’ at the Casa del Cinema in Venice.
The event is organised in collaboration with the Municipality of Venice, the Italian Office of the Council of Europe, the Associazione Figli della Shoah, Circuito Cinema and Europe Direct.
The Italian Seat of the Council of Europe and the Associazione Figli della Shoah through this film will try to deepen the relations between art and Shoah.

 

Greetings by: Mario Schwetz, Italian See of the Council of Europe, and Marina Scarpa Campos, Vice President Associazione Figli della Shoah.

 

SYNOPSIS
The 2015 film, directed by Simon Curtis, tells the story of Maria Altmann and her long and difficult legal battle to recover the paintings that were stolen from her family by the Nazis. Through a series of flashbacks, it recalls the Anschluss, the arrival of Nazi forces in Vienna and the Nazis' looting of Jewish families. After the discovery of an earlier battle to recover works of art, in particular the portrait of her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer also known as ‘the Woman in Gold’, Maria decides to ask for help from the lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg, the son of a close friend of hers, to file a claim for the return of the artwork.

 

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