The Theft of the Mona Lisa

The Theft of the Mona Lisa (German: Der Raub der Mona Lisa) is a 1931 German drama film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Trude von Molo, Willi Forst, and Gustaf Gründgens.[1] It is based on a true story.

This article is about the film. For the real-world event, see Mona Lisa § Refuge, theft and vandalism.

The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Vicenzo Peruggia (Willi Forst) stealing the Mona Lisa
Directed byGéza von Bolváry
Produced byJulius Haimann
Written byWalter Reisch
Starring
Music byRobert Stolz
CinematographyWilly Goldberger
Edited byHermann Haller
Production
company
Super-Film
Distributed bySuper-Film
Release date
  • 25 August 1931 (1931-08-25)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Robert A. Dietrich.

Plot

In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia is a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with Mathilde, a French hotel maid. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Vicenzo steals the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing her. When she proves to be fickle, the crestfallen hero confesses and is arrested. Unwilling to admit that he had been led astray by a woman, Vicenzo claims that he stole the painting in order to restore it to his native Italy and is hailed as a national hero.

Cast
gollark: It's not like it has *every* possible feature.
gollark: It seems like an obvious idea, so it probably doesn't, unless the programmers doing the filtering are lazy/deliberately inattentive.
gollark: I would be interested to know if that works.
gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_reflection_test
gollark: Near/far mode or whatever; people apply different reasoning to abstract problems than concrete ones.

See also

References
  1. Hull, p. 251.

Bibliography
  • Hull, David Stewart (1969). Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-01489-3.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.