Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief
Director: Hugo Macgregor
USA | 2024 | English | 115 min
Post Film Discussion with Victoria Reed, Senior Curator of Provenance, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
NEW ENGLAND PREMIERE
“It’s not every day that you meet an old Nazi.” So begins historian Jonathan Petropoulos, recalling the day in 1998 when he first met Bruno Lohse, Hermann Göring’s “art agent” in Paris during World War II. Once an obscure art dealer, Bruno Lohse rose to prominence in Göring’s inner circle, personally orchestrating history’s most infamous art theft ring for Hitler’s right-hand man.
Filmed over five years and seven countries, Plunderer unfolds as a detective story with Petropoulos detailing Lohse’s role in stealing countless masterpieces from liquidated Jews across Europe, and the web of postwar complicity that shielded Lohse from meaningful justice.
This expertly-made new documentary confronts the art market’s frequent disregard for provenance and confronts the enduring human cost of these crimes. It also raises questions about the ethical consequences facing authors who fall prey to their sources and become a part of the story.
Plunderer was produced by John Friedman under the aegis of The National Center for Jewish Film.
Photo above: Bruno Lohse (second from right) leads Hermann Göring (center) on a tour of stolen artworks.
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Sunday, March 23, 11:30 am
Museum of Fine Arts (Remis)
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Film premieres + Q&As with MFA curators!
The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka screens at 2:30 pm
