As part of the events dedicated to Holocaust Memorial Day, on 19 January the Italian Office of the Council of Europe presented to the public, in collaboration with Cinema Dante, the screening of the film "Woman in gold" by director Simon Curtis. This tells the true story of Maria Altmann, a Viennese Jew who fled during the Nazi occupation.

The protagonist leads a decades-long legal battle to retrieve the portrait of her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer known in Austria as the "Woman in Gold", a Klimt painting seized by the Nazis from her family. The story that inspires this film is one of the most impressive among those concerning art and World War II.

With his work, the director, in addition to portraying the difficult story of the Holocaust on the big screen, criticizes the civilian population that in the Vienna of the time merely observed the violence and abuse against the Jews.

A large number of viewers attended the event, aimed at commemorating the terrible years of Jewish persecution. At the event took part the director of the Cinema Silvano Sguoto, Marina Campos Scarpa, National Vice President of the Associazione Figli della Shoah, Luisella Pavan-Woolfe, Director of the Italian Office of the Council of Europe, Francesca Vianello of Europe Direct and Giuseppe Barbanti, Director of CINIT, Cineforum Italiano di Venezia.