A Sister Cities Presentation: “The Lost Masterpieces”
A Sister Cities Presentation: “The Lost Masterpieces”
Gotha, East Germany, 1979: Five Dutch masterpieces disappear overnight from the magnificent collection of paintings at Friedenstein Castle. Despite numerous leads and more than a thousand interrogations, the paintings remained lost; until 40 years later when the mayor of Gotha received a strange phone call... "The Lost Masterpieces" is a German documentary that traces the events surrounding the shocking heist and the eventual return of...