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"Art Dealer" a First-Class Mystery
By Skip Sheffield
“The Art Dealer” plays like a first-class mystery, inspired
by real crimes in the wake of World War II in Europe.
Anna Sigalevich (“The Piano Teacher,” “Flight of the Red
Balloon”) plays a Polish Jewish woman named Esther who becomes obsessed with
finding out what happened to her grandmother’s collection of masterpiece
paintings. All she has to go on is some mysterious black-and-white 16 mm film
footage of her grandmother and grandfather, who was executed by the Nazis, and
some purloined old letters by her grandmother. In a script written by French
director Francois Margolin, Esther learns there are villains in addition to the
Nazis, and a couple may be among her own family and trusted friends. The fact
of the matter is that all kinds of treasures were plundered from Jewish
families, and getting restitution is no simple task, but efforts must be made..
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