The Rape of Europa
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Movie Reviews of The Rape of Europa
Movie Review: Interesting - Outstanding!
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD was recommended to me by a director at my office who was a history major in college. It will tug at your heart for what people endured during WWII. We see an interview with a young Jewish man who was kept back from the death camps (father, mother and brothers were gone) to sort furniture...and found the contents of his family's home. He grabbed an old suitcase to hold photos of his young father and girlish mother. There was a photo of their wedding. And then he had to abandon them again when he was forced to another location with no belongings. I'd never seen any of this actual film from the various German-occupied cities. Whether you're an art buff, a history fiend...or both, you will not lose interest from start to finish.Movie Review: Art thefts perpetrated by the Nazis
Summary: 5 Stars
The plundering and theft of Europe's great art treasures, both publicly and privately owned, is the subject of this fine documentary film. The film is based on the book of the same title. [[ASIN:0679756868 The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War]. Both the book and the film are essential for further understanding of the myriad of facets of the evil perpetrated by the Nazis on Europe during World War II. The book has more detail, of course, but the graphic nature of the subject is well-served by the film. Seeing the "Winged Victory" descend the stairs in the Louvre for removal to a hiding place is worth more than "a thousand words."Movie Review: The Ultimate Triumph of Beauty over Brutality
Summary: 5 Stars
The documentary "The Rape of Europa" clearly shows the genesis of the Nazi plunder of private and public art collections in occupied Europe during WWII as well as the partial recovery and (slow) restitution of these pieces of art to their legitimate owners since the end of WWII. The exhibition "Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker" that was held in New York in 2009 bore testimony to the tribulations that some legitimate owners of the pieces of art have to go through to recover what is theirs sometimes decades after the end of WWII! In summary, the documentary under review has the distinctive merit to cover a topic that was grossly underreported for decades.Movie Review: great World War II real story
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent documentary, rich in information about the destiny of artwork stolen by the nazis in several different countries: Poland, Austria, Russia, Italy and France. It also shows what the Allies did when they found thousands of masterpieces stacked in many hidden places... The question of the ownership of a work of art is also addressed and debated, since museums and countries (after the war) had different opinions about these legal issues... As an artist and Art History avid reader, I was entirely fascinated by this movie. It is an anthology piece, to say the least . It contains so much concentrated information, that it is truly remarkable. (Madalena Tavares)Movie Review: A fascinating documentary on stolen Jewish art during the Holocaust
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Rape of Europa" is an astounding film that tells the story of Jewish art that was stolen by the Nazis during the Holocaust and traces the stolen pieces to try to reunite them with the rightful owners.
Films that tell stories about the Holocaust are particularly important because they aid in remembering that Jews went through and making sure that people do not forget the past.
This documentary does an incredible job exploring how art was stolen from the Jews. I would also recommend the documentary, Belzec