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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
year 1937
art
year 2006
year 1991
year 1949
year 1995
year 1951
year 529
year 1923
year 1945
year 1944
year 1943
year 1942
year 1941
year 1940
year 1938
art dealer
third reich
year 1939
holocaust
art theft
art history
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
1990s
1940s
1920s
1930s
1950s
california
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
staten island ferry
politics
trophy art
computer model
religious object
hebrew
rimonim
christian
cronheim germany
flashlight
attic
abandoned synagogue
nuremberg
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
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
frieze
tour guide
royal castle warsaw poland
reference to the acropolis
architectural model
reference to benito mussolini
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
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 sandro botticelli
linz austria
leaning tower of pisa
pisa italy
reference to michelangelo
reference to peter tchaikovsky
reference to leo tolstoy
warsaw poland
krakow poland
swastika
fascism
reference to johannes vermeer
propaganda
hiding art
library
prologue
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
france
art restoration
art gallery
art conservation
architecture
anti semitism
world war two
theft
based on book
20th century
21st century
girl
boy
reference to alice in wonderland
reference to mein kampf
slav

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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