S11·E2 Stealing Klimt
- Episode
- Season 11, Episode 2
- Air Date
- May 15, 2007
- Story Type
- Core Character Arc
Synopsis
Alan Yentob tells the story of the struggle by 90-year-old Maria Altmann to recover five Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from her family by the Nazis in 1938 and which have hung in the Austrian National Gallery ever since. It chronicles Maria's early life in glittering fin-de-siecle Vienna, her escape from Nazi terror and her fight to recover the Klimts against all the odds, which takes her to the US Supreme Court and pits her not just against Austria, but also against the Bush administration.
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When did Season 11 Episode 2 of imagine… air?
Season 11, Episode 2 ('Stealing Klimt') originally aired on May 15, 2007.
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Alan Yentob tells the story of the struggle by 90-year-old Maria Altmann to recover five Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from her family by the Nazis in 1938 and which have hung in the Austrian National Gallery ever since. It chronicles Maria's early life in glittering fin-de-siecle Vienna, her escape...
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