There will be an optional dinner at 6:00 pm, with the movie starting at 7:00 pm. The cost is $20 for the movie and dinner; $5 for the movie only.

Registration for dinner is now closed. If you’d like to attend the film this evening, go to our registration form below.

This gripping documentary traces the rise, fall, and astonishing postwar resurgence of notorious Nazi art dealer Bruno Lohse, who helped Hitler’s right-hand man Hermann Göring amass a vast collection of stolen art in Europe during World War II. 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.

This event is presented by Washington Hebrew Congregation and Besters. It’s sponsored by WHC member Bruce Robinson, who is an Executive Producer of Plunderer.

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About the 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.