History Film / WomanInGold

* EurekaMoment: After teaching a dead-end in the proceedings, Randy realizes how they can go further when he sees an art book in an American gift shop that has the painting on the cover.

In 1938, Maria Altmann, a member of a prominent Jewish family, was forced to flee her homeland of Austria to escape the Nazis. Among the things the Nazis stole was a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Adele_Bloch-Bauer_I painting of her aunt]] by Creator/GustavKlimt, one of the few remaining attachments to her family. Half a century later, she hires Randol "Randy" Schönberg, the son of a family friend, to seek litigation to reclaim the painting and make peace with the past.

In 1938, Maria Altmann, a member of a prominent Jewish family, was forced to flee her homeland of Austria to escape the Nazis. Among the things the Nazis stole was a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Adele_Bloch-Bauer_I painting of her aunt]] by Gustav Klimt, one of the few remaining attachments to her family. Half a century later, she hires Randol "Randy" Schönberg, the son of a family friend, to seek litigation to reclaim the painting and make peace with the past.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Randy agrees to take the case after learning that the painting is worth $100 million. However, he has a change of heart once he visits Vienna and witnesses the Holocaust Memorial in Judenplatz.

** Randy builds his first case upon the fact that it was Maria's Uncle Frederick who actually paid Gustav Klimt, making him, and not her Aunt Adele, the rightful owner of the paintings, meaning that Adele's bequeathment of her portraits to the Belvedere Gallery is invalid.

In 1938, Maria Altmann, a member of a prominent Jewish family, was forced to flee her homeland of Austria to escape the Nazis. Among the things the Nazis stole was a painting of her aunt, one of the few remaining attachments to her family. Half a century later, she hires Randol "Randy" Schönberg, the son of a family friend, to seek litigation to reclaim the painting and make peace with the past.

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* JewishMother: Maria, towards Randy (even though he's not actually her son)

* UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust: The film's flashbacks take place in 1938, in which Austria joined Hitler's Reich. We see Jews forcibly shaven, forced to scrub anti-Anschluss graffiti with acid, and writing "Jude" ("Jew") on their shops.

''Woman in Gold'' is a 2015 drama film starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, based on a true story.

* ThoseWackyNazis: Prominently shown in the flashbacks, in all their brutality.

** Randy builds his first case upon the fact that it was Maria's Uncle Frederick who actually paid Gustav Klimt making him, and not her Aunt Adele, the rightful owner of the paintings, meaning that Adele's bequeathment of her portraits to the Belvedere Gallery is invalid.
** Randy later invokes a loophole within the American Foreign Sovereigns Immunity Act (the Belvedere Gallery was using the illegally obtained "Woman in Gold" to engage in commercial activity in the US) to sue the Austrian government in the United States (The Austrian government required a prohibitively expensive filing fee to even hear restitution cases). This causes enough of a ruckus for the case to be taken all the way to the US Supreme Court and for the Austrian government to finally hear the case.
* [[invoked]]{{Squick}}: Invoked. Maria is visibly unnerved as she learns that some of the art from her home adorned the walls of the Berghof, Hitler's alpine residence, and that her aunt's favorite necklace was later worn by Göring's wife.

* BerserkButton: Maria is insistent that she will not go back to Austria (although she eventually changes her mind) and pointedly refuses to speak German while there. This sort of thinking is TruthInTelevision among survivors of the Holocaust

!!This Film Contains Tropes Of:

* RulesLawyer: Randy builds his case upon the fact that it was Maria's Uncle Frederick who actually paid Gustav Klimt making him, and not her Aunt Adele, the rightful owner of the paintings, meaning that Adele's bequeathment of her portraits to the Belvedere Gallery is invalid.

* UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust: The film's flashbacks take place in 1938, in which Austria joined Hitler's Reich. We see Jews forcibly shaven, forced to scrub anti-Anschluss graffiti with acid, and writing "Jude" on their shops.

* ThoseWhackyNazis: Prominently shown in the flashbacks, in all their brutality.