Art Crimes
2022 90mDocumentary, Crime
7.1
A Thriller Documentary Series 6 x 90 min / 6 x 52 min. ART CRIMES - The most incredible art robberies told by their protagonists. How did two Van Gogh disappear in Amsterdam to resurface in Naples fourteen years later in the kitchen of a Camorra dealer? Seven masterpieces of Italian Renaissance were taken in Budapest in the middle of the cold war. How did they end up in the garden of a Greek Monastery? What happened to the famous Nativity with Saint Francis by Caravaggio in the hands of mafia boss Badalamenti? Art Crimes will take us inside the most unbelievable and intriguing international art robberies of the century. From Amsterdam to Athens, from Rome to Miami, Naples to Bucharest, each documentary thriller will bring us behind the story of one famous art theft with exclusive access to the criminals behind each robbery and the detectives that caught them or tried to. Through highly cinematic multi-camera interviews, surveillance camera footage, trial records as well as the exclusive access to protagonists and incredibly realistic reconstructions each film brings each investigation back to life on the hunt of the world's most famous masterpieces. From dodgy art dealers in Amsterdam to undercover Scotland Yard investigators, from small town thieves to the most well planned actions, discover six unbelievable stories with plot twists and the unexpected scenarios of a Hollywood film.
