Woman in Gold is a 2015 biographical drama film directed by Simon Curtis and written by Alexi Kaye Campbell. The film stars Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Tatiana Maslany, Ma
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Helen Mirren plays Maria Altmann, who fought against Government of Austria for almost a decade to reclaim Gustav Klimt's iconic painting of her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer.
Ryan Reynolds plays Randol 'Randy' Schoenberg, Maria Altman’s lawyer, who took the legal battle all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, then to binding arbitration in Austria.
Daniel Brühl plays as Hubertus Czernin, an Austrian journalist who helps support and research Maria Altman’s claim to the treasured Austrian portrait.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-B
Woman in Gold (film)
…lawyer, Randy Schoenberg, fought the government of Austria for almost a decade to reclaim Gustav Klimt's iconic painting of her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, which was stolen from her relatives by the Nazis in Vienna just prior to World War II. Altmann took her legal battle all the way to the Supreme Court…
Adele Bloch-Bauer, c. 1910
Detail of Judith I (1901), for which Adele modelled
The mosaic of Empress Theodora at the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna