Maria Altmann (played by Helen Mirren (photo, bottom, left), an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.Rico says it was, as expected, a powerful film, and rightly condemned those who collaborated with the Nazis to steal art and other valuables (let alone their lives) from the Jews of Austria. Altmann's lawyer, Randol Schoenberg, played by Ryan Reynolds (photo, bottom, right, with the Klimt painting at issue), did an excellent job as a man obsessed with getting her justice.
Rico, never one without a quibble, thought that the young actress, Tatiana Maslany, that they used to play Altmann when she had to flee the Nazis, didn't look quite enough like Mirren:
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