The Spoils (With Guest Q&A)
NR | Jamie Kastner | English | 104 minutes
Amid the rise of the far-right in Germany, as the spoils of post-WW2 collections hit the world art market afresh, lawyers, curators,
politicians, and Jewish groups the world round are duking it out, painting by painting, sketch by sketch, over questions of ownership, history, and morality.
A series of failed attempts by the city of Düsseldorf to honour German-Jewish art dealer Max Stern, who barely escaped the war, settled in Montreal and became Canada’s most successful art dealer, cuts to the heart of the current crisis in Germany and the art world beyond around the restitution of Nazi-looted art.
Through a combination of exclusive interviews, actuality captured over a four-year period, and a gold-mine of rarely seen stock footage, THE SPOILS traces the betimes tragic, often irony-laced strokes in this ongoing battle.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A hosted by Globe and Mail columnist Marsha Lederman and historian Dr. Sharon Meen.
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