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Storyline

THE RAPE OF EUROPA takes the audience on a journey through seven countries telling a story of greed and warfare that threatened the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art. Young art historians and curators from America and across Europe fought back, mounting a campaign to rescue and return countless art works displaced by the war. Joan Allen narrates this chronicle about the battle over centuries of western culture.

Country: United States

Type: scripted

Status: Current

Language: English

Release Date: November 12, 2006

Also Known As: The Rape of Europa, Похищение Европы

Genres

Plot Keywords

history
war
tower
reference-to-pieter-bruegel
hermitage-saint-petersburg
saint-petersburg-russia
heritage
cultural-heritage
milan-italy
florence-italy
rome-italy
venice-italy
vienna-austria
rape
20th-century
21st-century
1990s
1940s
1920s
1930s
1950s
california
art
nazi
art-historian
plundering
nazi-germany
germany
f-rated
monuments-men
wiesbaden
camposanto-monumentale
eiffel-tower
arc-de-triomphe
statue-of-liberty
post-world-war-two
toscana
reference-to-joseph-stalin
four-word-title
einsatzstab-reichsleiter-rosenberg-the-err
the-roberts-commission
aunt-niece-relationship
pushkin-museum-moscow
russian-politics
communist
bell
los-angeles-california
year-2006
staten-island-ferry
politics
year-1991
trophy-art
year-1949
year-1995
computer-model
religious-object
hebrew
rimonim
christian
cronheim-germany
flashlight
attic
abandoned-synagogue
nuremberg
year-1951
art-business
reference-to-antonio-da-correggio
nazi-party-headquarters-berlin
trumpeter
victory
applause
abandoned-jail
cavern
miner's-helmet
arrest
reference-to-walter-andreas-hofer
schnapps
soviet-trophy-brigade
vengeance
motorcycle-repair-garage
letter
reference-to-deane-keller
san-lorenzo-church-rome
reference-to-the-last-supper-the-painting
postage-stamp
airplane
year-529
benedictine-monastery
monastery
mountain
monument
military
snow
death
starvation
national-gallery-of-art-washington-d.c.
dead-body
corpse
siberia
porcelain
annihilation
soviet-union
neuschwanstein-castle
alps
concentration-camp
reference-to-francois-boucher
carinhall-germany
hunting-lodge
train
reference-to-the-rothschilds
spy
archives-des-musees-nationaux-paris
art-archive
secret-diary
reference-to-rose-valland
chateau
abbey
ambulance
truck
refugee
invasion
art-curator
winged-victory-the-statue
video-camera
photographer
camera
lost-art
art-database
polish-ministry-of-culture
mona-lisa-the-painting
cellar
country-estate
art-catalogue
religious-art
reference-to-veit-stoss
st.-mary's-church-krakow-poland
fire
flame-thrower
bombing
explosion
dynamite
warsaw-uprising
german-invasion-of-poland
girl
boy
frieze
tour-guide
royal-castle-warsaw-poland
reference-to-the-acropolis
architectural-model
reference-to-benito-mussolini
year-1923
last-will-and-testament
nazi-annexation-of-austria
embezzlement
reference-to-joseph-goebbels
reference-to-albert-speer
reference-to-heinrich-himmler
munich-germany
house-of-german-art-munich
degenerate-art
reference-to-vincent-van-gogh
purge
purification
aspiring-artist
watercolor
center-for-military-history-washington-d.c.
reference-to-oskar-kokoschka
reference-to-ferdinand-bloch-bauer
austrian-national-gallery-vienna
reference-to-adele-bloch-bauer
portrait-painting
slow-motion-scene
repatriation
furniture
year-1937
monte-cassino
jeu-de-paume-museum-paris
utah-museum-of-fine-arts-salt-lake-city
computer
louvre-museum-paris
reference-to-andre-seligmann
hunger
evacuation
cemetery
mass-grave
salt-mine
memory
synagogue
altar
religious-icon
church
religion
subtitled-scene
academy-of-fine-arts-vienna
racism
racial-prejudice
art-auction
brooklyn-new-york-city
manhattan-new-york-city
new-york-city
christie's-auction-house
leningrad-russia
siege-of-leningrad
fresco
castle
berlin-germany
reference-to-alice-in-wonderland
reference-to-sandro-botticelli
linz-austria
leaning-tower-of-pisa
pisa-italy
reference-to-michelangelo
reference-to-peter-tchaikovsky
reference-to-leo-tolstoy
reference-to-mein-kampf
warsaw-poland
slav
krakow-poland
swastika
fascism
reference-to-johannes-vermeer
propaganda
year-1945
year-1944
year-1943
year-1942
year-1941
year-1940
year-1938
hiding-art
art-dealer
library
prologue
third-reich
year-1939
reference-to-henri-matisse
art-collection
photograph
museum
art-museum
newsreel-footage
archive-footage
sculpture
painting
painter
torah
jew
poland
reference-to-edgar-degas
reference-to-bidarchiv-preusscher
reference-to-titian
reference-to-leo-von-klenze
reference-to-jan-van-eyck
reference-to-leonardo-da-vinci
reference-to-raphael
reference-to-paolo-veronese
reference-to-peter-paul-rubens
reference-to-emil-nolde
reference-to-rembrandt
reference-to-marc-chagall
reference-to-wassily-kandinsky
reference-to-egon-schiele
reference-to-gustav-klimt
reference-to-pablo-picasso
fine-art
vandalism
u.s.-army
public-art
paris-france
holocaust
france
art-restoration
art-gallery
art-conservation
architecture
anti-semitism
world-war-two
theft
art-theft
art-history
based-on-book

Company Credits

Production Co: Actual Films, Agon Arts and Entertainent, Oregon Public Broadcasting

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Audience Award 2006

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Audience Award

Best Documentary

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