This evening at 7pm, Casa América, in collaboration with the Centro Sefarad-Israel, is screening the film La dama de oro (The Golden Lady) (United Kingdom-United States, 2015), directed by Simon Curtis, as part of the series Liberated, but not free, a film showcase organised by Casa de América and Centro Sefarad-Israel on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Month. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
With a screenplay by Alexis Kaye Campbell, based on the true story of E. Randol Schoenberg & Maria Altamann, the film stars Oscar-winner Helen Mirren, accompanied by Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl and Katie Holmes, among others.
In 1998, Maria Altmann, a Jewish woman who fled Vienna during World War II, returns sixty years later to reclaim the property confiscated from her family by the Nazis, including Gustav Klimt’s famous Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. A young lawyer helps her in her fight. A young lawyer will help her in her struggle with the Austrian government and the US Supreme Court. At the same time, Maria will have to face the terrible memories of her past.
