[MSN] The Rape of Europa opens in U.S. cinemas starting in New York on Friday, September 14th

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The Rape of Europa begins its North American theatrical release 
starting Friday, September 14th in New York City.  The new Actual Films 
documentary is based on Lynn H. Nicholas's landmark history of Adolf 
Hitler, Hermann Göring, the Nazi’s large-scale theft of European art 
and the Allied effort to preserve and return it.  According to the 
Toronto Star, The Rape of Europa "may be the most important documentary 
of the year."

The film takes the audience on a journey through seven countries, into 
the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened 
to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the 
Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in history.  
But young art professionals as well as ordinary heroes, from truck 
drivers to department store clerks, fought back with an extraordinary 
effort to safeguard, rescue and return the millions of lost, hidden and 
stolen treasures.

The Rape of Europa begins and ends with the story of Gustav Klimt’s 
famed Gold Portrait, taken from Viennese Jews in 1938, now at the Neue 
Galerie in New York and among the most expensive paintings ever sold.  
Today, more than sixty years later, the legacy of this tragic history 
continues to play out as families of looted collectors recover major 
works of art, conservators repair battle damage, and nations fight of 
the fate of ill-gotten spoils of war. Joan Allen narrates this 
breathtaking chronicle about the very survival of centuries of western 
culture.

On Friday, September 14th, co-director Richard Berge will be in New 
York to answer questions at the Paris Theater after the 2:00, 4:20 and 
9:30 screenings, and at the Angelika Theater after the 7:20 show.  He 
will be at all screenings at the Paris Theater on Saturday, September 
15th.

Opening Friday, September 14 – NEW YORK CITY & WESTCHESTER COUNTY

The Paris Theater (4 W 58th St, New York - 212.688.3800 - 
http://theparistheatre.com/)
Angelika Film Center (18 W Houston Street - 212.995.2000 - 
http://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/afc.asp)
Jacob Burns Film Center (364 Manville Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570 - 
914.747.5555 - http://www.burnsfilmcenter.org)

On Friday, September 28, a wider, national release begins at these 
venues and cities:

GREATER NEW YORK CITY
Malverne, NY - Malverne Cinema 4
Jamaica, NY - Kew Gardens Cinema
Brooklyn, NY - Cobble Hill Cinema
Maplewood, NJ - Maplewood Theatre (New  Jersey)

BETHESDA, MARYLAND
Landmark's Bethesda Row Theater

BOSTON AREA
Cambridge - Landmark's Kendall Square Theater
Brookline - The Coolidge Corner Theater
West Newton - The West Newton Theater

LOS ANGELES AREA
West Los Angeles - Laemmle's Royal Theatre
Encino - Laemmle's Town Center 5
Pasadena - Laemmle's Playhouse 7
Irvine - Edwards University Town Center 6

WASHINGTON, DC
Landmark's E Street Theater

To find out about additional cities and venues that will be added 
following the initial release,  please visit our website:
http://www.therapeofeuropa.com/aboutLocationsScreenings.aspx

View Trailer:  
http://theparistheatre.com/trailers/trailer-rapeofeuropa.mov

Contact:

Richard Berge
Actual Films
221 Eleventh Street
San Francisco, CA  94103

richard at actualfilms.net
www.actualfilms.net
main:   415-575-9999
fax:       415-575-0826