The Rape of Europa at the MFA

Thu 24 Jan to Thu 31 Jan. 1001 Watertown Street, West Newton, 02465. Sara Rubin, 617-244-9899, info@bjff.org. Boston Jewish Film Festival - [events]

January 24 - January 31 The Boston Jewish Film Festival is pleased to co-present, with The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, five screenings of the critically hailed (and BJFF 2006 Audience Award Winner) THE RAPE OF Europa, from January 24-31. Based on Lynn H. Nicholas’ book of the same name, this astonishing and timely documentary tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich. The film begins and ends with artist Gustav Klimt’s 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (a turn-of-the-20th-century Viennese hostess), recently awarded to the latter’s 90-year-old niece. In turn, she sold it only months ago to Ronald Lauder for a staggering $135 million, the then-highest price