Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief

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Synopsis

Plunderer is a feature-length documentary that focuses on the career of Bruno Lohse, a Nazi art dealer who served as Göring’s art agent in Paris and headed the ERR, the Nazis’ clearinghouse for confiscated art in France. Captured and interrogated by the Monuments Men after the war, Lohse served a brief prison sentence. Following his release, he profitably dealt in stolen art for sixty years, selling to collectors, galleries, and major museums. The film includes stories of Holocaust survivors working to reclaim their families’ lost artworks and examines the continuity between the post-war era and the contemporary art world and its secretive culture.

Director

Hugo Macgregor has been shortlisted for a BAFTA and nominated multiple times for Grierson, Royal Television Society, and Emmy Awards, in addition to winning numerous other accolades for his films. His work includes the acclaimed BBC series The Romantics & Us; Simon Schama’s The Story of the Jews (“Over the Rainbow,” BBC/PBS); A House Through Time (BBC); and Becoming Matisse (BBC Two), which combined animation with testimony from the Matisse family to tell the story of the artist’s early life.