nothing compared to the KISS :D if you want to see the real stuff you have to come to vienna .. birthplace of art culture and music

I love this stuff wonderful story the movie was good also

So I'm watching art of the heist and the narrator mentions the Mona Lisa being important to France..... hello

I want to know why that evil witch in Austria wasn't jailed, as she lied the paintings weren't bought from the Nazis.

Very intriguing, especially as my gran was from those regions Bavaria, born 1930, classed as ‘German speaking Czechs’ I think In her latter years she took up painting as a hobby, she also learned she was a some distant relative of Klimt, however she couldn’t prove on paper, maybe due to nazis burning everything? Her father was a musical composer, but as his blood was not pure German, they were all burned, But she kept a lot of her life very quiet until she wrote her memoirs, even about being took by he elder sisters to Hitlter parade throughout the bordering towns, her word was viable to me when talking about history, she lived it and I believed her Wether she looked into this early in life or later with the aid of the net I’m not sure Klimt had I think 14 children, so I’m trying to establish where she found a link Glad the paintings went to the rightful owner, or it was resolved, wills are a touchy thing to deal with.

I just saw "WOMAN IN GOLD" with Helen Mirren also ... and it too inspired me to learn more about this era. Very interesting and terribly tragic.

Indeed 👍 I've seen the movie numerous times, and I am so grateful for your tenacity and compassion in standing up for the legacy of your family and all who had their family heirlooms stolen and were murdered in the holocaust. We must never forget what happened or allow people to diminish this atrocity!

The stuff movies are made of :)

Agree is disagree. They should be in the museum.

Adele’testimony says clearly the painting go to Belvedere

Adele made her will before the Nazi era. The painting was not her property but that of her beloved husband who was left penniless and all their people gassed and burned by the German's and their willing collaborators of whom Austria was one of a vast number of Jew hating murderers. Maria is class and Randall is genius, congratulations.

Good point

In the case of controversy-driven art, if that was what made the art valuable why pay the artist?

Really, that is all you get from this documentary...SORRY BUT YOU MISSED THE ENTIRE POINT.

She did her family proud :)

she was a greedy old lady .. now she is dead.

@@alffuergregor You are as amazing as always, my friend! My very best.

@@gregorcollins Well... I mean really what did she succeed in doing? She took the paintings out of public view at the Belvedere, against the express wishes of her aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, then she immediately sold them to private collectors. She paid her 'no-win, no-fee' opportunistic lawyer 40% ($109M) gave some to a Jewish charity as guilt relief, and pocketed an absolute fortune. Neither her aunt nor her uncle left those paintings to her or to any other extended family. But for an absurd, politically loaded judgement, those paintings simply were not hers to sell. If she actually cared about the paintings, she would have left them exactly where they were, exactly where her aunt had intended them to be. Or she would have kept them to look at herself. She didn't care about them at all. She cared about lining her pockets and when an opportunity presented itself, not of her instigation I might add but that of a lawyer with an eye for a killing, she jumped in with both feet, not least because the enterprise would cost her nothing as the lawyer was willing to work pro bono on the off-chance he might make... well... $109M. The world is an idiot for not seeing this fiasco for what it is. Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer will be turning in their graves knowing that their most beloved treasures have been stolen yet again, this time by a member of their own family. Quite, quite sick.

@@mrrolight the painting is apart of a private collection but still viewable to the public and she took care of her family.

Yes congratulations on lining your pockets with $109 million, 40% of the sale of the paintings as legal services commission to Ms Altmann who herself said: "I would not want any private person to buy these paintings, ... It is very meaningful to me that they are seen by anybody who wants to see them, because that would have been the wish of my aunt." And congratulations to the investor who bought the Adele Bloch-Bauer II portrait for $88 million and sold it for $150 to Chinese businessman for his own private collection. Shame about all the real art lovers who can no longer see any of these paintings, against the express wishes of Adele BB herself, who in her own will left them to the Belvedere.

@@mrrolight agree nobody cares about the will of Adele BB they care more about politics and greed. They are after all .. americans :D

@@mrrolight You are too much. He damn near went bankrupt and deserved compensation and repayment. She deserved to have her paintings returned. Not much else was; her uncles' sugar companies, the villa that Heydrich took over, properties, houses, personal possessions - most - all gone, all stolen. Sorry, Austrians during WW2 and thereafter have a very poor history in regards to respecting their own citizens of Jewish ancestry - - or for following the law, and have long aided & abetted the Nazi regime.. As did the Swiss.... This is one tiny case of good winning over evil, and fine FAIR judges in Austria seeing it . Quite brave & noble on their parts to do the right thing.

Have you watch the British Film Drama of this story? So moving, an incredible story. Really puts the whole story into context. and as a bonus, Helen Mirren also gives an Oscar worthy performance in the film...

@@LindaTCornwall Yes; I have seen it. It was excellent.

Nick Nicometi ....Does god “work” only on behalf of the innocent, the just, the weak? Do you believe that god “works”only to right humanity’s evils? Is god like a parent who separates two fighting children, listens to their respective arguments and always sides with the deserving one? How convenient to have such a god around. But it is a narrow idea of god and one that is a fantasy of your needs. If there is a god that watches over and protects us, as your god seems to do, was it not the same god that watched over the injustice as it happened? And if the painting had not been returned to the family? Many more victims of the Nazis never saw justice. Where was god during their struggles ? Perhaps you might rethink your concept of god.

@@renzo6490 Its mostly a figure of speech, I don't think the person was inviting all comers to a debate about the existence of God. The premise of your argument is flawed though, if God created existence and he is just. Than nothing that happens within his creation is unjust by him. Humans can be unjust to the nature of God. Not the other way around.

@@renzo6490 You have a very convenient level of analysis when it comes to said God. fits right into the whole no nonsense logic driven atheistic thing. Your types never have a fundamental understanding of what you argue against. Attacking a straw man version of God is easy. I would suggest watching a few John Lennox debates.

@@renzo6490 Everything will be all right in the end. If it's not all right it's not the end. Epics have many verses chapters and volumes. If this is not the end then we can hope for another chapter. But what that is, who can possibly imagine? It seems amazing to me that the Jewish family that lost everything to the Nazis should have their fortune restored in this manner. It's even more amazing that the world should have had the privilege of knowing Adele Bloch-Bauer and the genius of her portaitist for so long.

Kateri’s Krafty Idea’s What is the title of the movie in Netlix? Thanks! 🙂

Jeah Melocotones might be Lady in Gold?

75smurfette selfish Austrians haven’t changed a bit

@Swissffun Nani one must admit: That's a strong point.

Brilliant movie.

The Belvedere has an awful history. NAZI history.

@@eviken1982 Oh wow, didn't know the Nazis existed in 1714. Prince Eugene of Savoyen must have been SS-Obergruppenführer back then.

Gosh would so love to go

+Anishka Altmann you should be !

+Anishka Altmann Are you a niece or granddaughter of Maria Altmann z"l ? It is an extraordinary true story. Then, Maria z"l and her brother-in-law in Liverpool were responsible for introducing and importing kashmir/cachmère sweaters to the U.S. market! I never knew that. You know this story/history, though your family's, is somewhat personal to me as well as my grandmother's family were part of the Viennese Jewish community too, at that time; the Reichmanns.

MartiJ2011 the woman in Gold movie brought me into this documentary as well

You mean retreive a painting that was rightfully theirs right ? Meanwhile Maria only cared when the painting took value and decided to desecrate her aunt's wish for financial gain ?

And you are one-half of Helen Mirren :)

Rome is always in the shadows

Interesting that you see it as a left-right thing, with no evidence of such. Most of us want the law applied equally for a just outcome. We know from recent experience, the left is only interested in winning, not justice.

Lady in Gold starring Helen Mirren.

I completely agree. Have always hoped Spielberg would make a movie of The Trail of Tears. RIP dear heartbroken ancestors.

jackchorn now that would be a true sight of GOLD, I mean to behold.......

Oh SHUT UP

Spain might be a bit worried

ivorytower99 l'heritier it's in French ,documentary about looted art and restitution

***** Most countries don't try to exterminate their Jewish populations. If you were Jewish, would you have wanted to go back to Austria after WWII? Should those who survived have been forced to leave behind what remained of their collections?

Of course I wouldn't have wanted to go back and yes they should have been forced to leave the art behind. I can own things in most countries of the world but I am not permitted to export them from those countries and bring them here. The US is also a strong believer in this concept. You could not import Egyptian artifacts or things taken from Venice for example. So whilst it may belong to them they would not normally be entitled to move it around the world. And that would also have been true if Hitler and the second world war had never happened.

***** that will change in the next 10 years

Can't protect Nazi looted art.

***** the difference here is that the art was commissoned by the family and it was relatively new at that time, these were not antiquities, it's like comparing apples and oranges.

No they could have granted restitution when there was clear evidence to do so. They had a chance to make amends. They didn't.

I’m still waiting for Japan to be forced to pay reparations. Double standard on which lives are valued.