"The Theft of the Mona Lisa" "Here you see the Mona Lisa, ladies and gentlemen it is Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece the world's most famous painting the portrait of the beautiful Mona Lisa del Gioconda she is exactly 406 years old the painting, not the woman" "for centuries artists and scholars have tried to solve the mystery of her smile but nobody has yet managed to get behind the secret of this strange, saintly woman" "and now, ladies and gentlemen have a closer look at the masterpiece you'll notice at once that all the colours ... through the ever changing exposure to cold and warmth in the course of the years are getting ever darker." "getting ever darker." "Therefore the Louvre's administration has decided... to put the paintings, catalogue no." "1717 ... 1717 ... 453 ... 453 ... 1601 ... 1601 ... under glass." "the commission for this assignment is given to the firm ..." "Compelle, 89 rue St. Honoré" "Compelle" "Cheminard" "Bragel" "Perugia" "you'll report to the Louvre, to the warden of the Italian gallery take all that's necessary" "where's Perugia?" "go now" "Perugia will follow later" "Napoleon's Italian Campaign" "Cheminard and Bragel are already on their way to the Louvre" "got a light?" "cigarette?" "thank you, I don't smoke" "due to cleaning the Louvre remains closed on Mondays" "no. 1117" " Correggio Le marriage mystique de St. Catherine (1510)" "the bearer of this receipt has to put under glass painting no. 1602" " Great Gallery - room VI no. 1601" " Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) 1505" "boy!" "don't you fall in love with the Mona Lisa!" "otherwise the same will happen to you as to the young Abbé who shot himself because he fell in love with the painting" "Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa all the time those tiresome requests answer to all applications, without any exception:" "the Mona Lisa is not for sale!" "it's no use to offer 15, 20 million or even higher sums the Mona Lisa will definitely remain in the Louvre" "# you silly little corporal # what do you know about love?" "# I bet you don't have a clue # how a soldier kisses his girl # you silly little corporal # what else do we need?" "# a wheat field under the sun # a little song, and me and you # you order me about as you like, you attack, the fortress falls # now you think you're a field-marshall # you silly little corporal" "who's the woman across in the hotel?" "the new chambermaid a fine number wears gloves while doing the rooms and sings all day her name's Mathilde" "come in" "what is it you wish?" "hang the clothes into the big suitcase" "I'm leaving" "fine clothes, aren't they?" "fie!" "Monsieur!" "you could have all this a girl like you" "she has her day off on Wednesdays she usually goes to the little cinema near the préfecture" " thank you - you're welcome allow me" "Vincenzo Perugia very pleased foreigner?" "Italian" "artist?" "painter" "I think I've seen you around before do you live in the quarter?" "on the contrary" "I live in an entirely different place" "Bois de Boulogne" "I have a big studio in a villa over there" "I see" "I'm here totally by accident for purposes of study did you find what you were looking for?" "I think I have" "The end" "the film is over our acquaintance begins" "# the blonde ?" "Aline from Paris, from Paris # was merry like in paradise, in Paris, in Paris" " # because she finally found a human being - # whom she loves, whom she loves # he's shy but ?" "that's new to her # you silly little corporal # what do you know about love" "# I bet you don't have a clue # how a soldier kisses his girl # you silly little corporal # what else do we need # a wheat field under the sun # a little song, and me and you" "# you order me about as you like, you attack, the fortress falls # now you think you're a field-marshal # you silly little corporal" "But you wouldn't know that." " here we are - that's right." "I know this quarter." "and the building too out of the question that's not possible, no!" "well come here" "are you really an artist?" "and what do you earn per month?" "enough for the both of us" " Mathilde!" " no no" "Mathilde!" "no no" "who's that?" "that's the Mona Lisa" "Mona Lisa?" "don't know is she a chambermaid too?" "no she's not a chambermaid" "Mathilde really?" "what is she?" "she used to be a rich Florentine lady and her name was:" "Madonna Lisa and the world's most famous artist" "Leonardo da Vinci loved her" "and he painted her portrait for four years but he never finished the painting because each night he destroyed with his own hands what he had painted during the day so that Madonna Lisa would have to come to him always." "and why does her portrait hang over your bed?" "because she resembles you, Mathilde" "me?" "but you're crazy!" "I'm much prettier!" "yes you're really much prettier, Mathilde of course" "what nonsense!" "Her?" "Looking like me?" "don't open!" "why not?" "I see so that's why" "what are you really?" "glazier and house painter" "and what do you earn?" "8 francs per day" "too little for the both of us, my boy # because there's finally a human being # whom she loves, whom she loves" "tell me how must a man be like, to please you?" "like that one" "or like that one" "a man who does something great something different, something special" "and he must do it only for me no matter what only for me!" "and everybody must know that he did it for me" "now you may go" "I'm so tired" "through the door, it's much more comfortable" "he doesn't work anymore he doesn't eat anymore doesn't drink anymore but what does he want, the Perugia?" "he wants to be famous no matter how just famous lately he wanted to enter the movie business then the foreign legion next, he'll commit a crime just to get into the newspapers" "I think he'll end up at the gallows" "alright, it's a deal, we're leaving tomorrow you'll give notice to your boss use some excuse too little food, too much work or too impatient guests first we'll travel to Cologne" "Berlin, Munich, Vienna" " but first class!" " first class" " luxury train?" " luxury train sleeping car?" "sleeping car" "but single compartments of course yes" "of course" "Mathilde!" "Today I'll do something nobody else has ever done for you." "Perugia" "good morning a beer and a chessboard" "I'll be sitting with the warden" "morning, warden morning, morning" "how about a game of chess?" "you owe me a revanche from last time unfortunately I don't have the time, I must be at the Louvre at 10 o'clock come on, warden, what do a few minutes matter?" "nobody is going to carry off those paintings" "right or left?" "totally out of the question, I really don't have the time left" "you're white, won already, warden" "well, I ... but I only have time till 5 min. to 10" "I must be at the Louvre at 10 sharp you'll manage alright, warden" "it's only 150 steps from here to the Louvre" "damned, I shouldn't have castled" "check to the queen, warden" "Heureka!" "just be patient, my young friend" "I'll find a way out of it just be patient as you wish take your time, warden yes yes yes" "one moment" "Touching the paintings is forbidden" "one moment please" "excuse me can you tell me what time it is?" "I think ... almost 10" "thank you" "of course it's the queen again it's the queen's fault it's always the queen's [dame's] fault but it doesn't matter, you may take my queen" "check to the king and with my next move your queen will be hopelessly lost" "I see that you're still the stronger player, warden yes, it has been a hard piece of work and how long did it take me?" "not even a quarter of an hour" " yes ..." " really ... not even a quarter of an hour" "block all exits!" "nobody leaves the Louvre!" "and first of all:" "nobody is to learn anything about it!" "stolen from the Louvre" "Le Matin" "Le premier informe" "Special issue:" "Sensation at the Louvre!" "Special issue:" "The Theft of the Mona Lisa!" "Le Matin: inimaginable!" "La "Joconde" a disparu du Louvre" "gentlemen" "I'm going to tell you a fairytale now" "yes a real fairytale for children" "one upon a time there was a big big city with many many millions of inhabitants and in this big big city stood a proud stony palace, 800 years old who has lived through wars and revolutions without losing a single stone" "and in this palace ... a little painting was being kept a small painting" "77 cm high, 53 cm wide a painting of immense, immeasurable value a painting visited yearly by thousands of admirers, from all sorts of foreign countries" "and this painting ... this little painting one beautiful sunny day before its guards' very eyes was stolen from this stony palace" "and nobody had been able to prevent it" "and now you go home, gentlemen and tell this fairytale to your children, they'll laugh at you and they'll say:" "this is impossible!" "we don't believe such a thing!" "yes, gentlemen even the children won't believe such fairytales nowadays" "and therefore I ask you to tell me what you have undertaken so that we all won't become the laughing stock of the funny papers" "The only smile left to us:" "the smile of the Minister the following steps were taken in order to arrest the culprit tightened controls at all border crossings harbours railway stations" "issue no. 2 strictest supervision of all travelers with suspect luggage in the international hotels of Europe and America issue no. 3 official enquiries at all lunatic asylums after escaped lunatics suffering from art complexes or similar illnesses issue no. 4" "we summoned for an interrogation 65 visitors of male and female sex who entered the Louvre on Tuesday, 22 August, till 10 a.m." "25 museum guards who kept a close guard in the Louvre's rooms at the relevant time of the theft" "8 copyists 3 tourist guides" "9 restroom ladies who attend to the human necessities in the Louvre and finally we'll interrogate those persons ... who weren't in the Louvre at the time of the crime but who could give important information those are the employees of the glaziery Compelle" "Louis Cheminard" "Henri Bragel" "Vincenzo Perugia" " we've got him!" " whom?" "the thief?" "no the painting?" "no but whom, by the devil?" "the frame the painting was in" "the frame goes at once to the anthropometric bureau to be examined for fingerprints" "now we'll soon find the culprit" "we know each other, don't we" "you were in the Louvre on Tuesday, 22nd August no!" "you were there exactly between 9.45 and 10 o'clock no!" "you stood before the painting of the Mona Lisa when it still hang there no!" "you only left when the painting of the Mona Lisa didn't hang there anymore no!" "you're the thief of the Mona Lisa!" "no!" "where's the painting?" "I'll buy the painting from you what do you ask for it?" " you aren't ..." " I'm not from the police, don't worry if I were a policeman I surely wouldn't be here yet" "I'm in Paris on behalf of an American private collector" "I am to buy the Mona Lisa for him the Louvre's management declined my offer so it suits me very well that the painting has changed its owner in the meantime" "I hope I come to a quicker agreement with you than with the Louvre's management so?" "how much?" "I won't sell the painting!" "I'm offering you a sum that will make you a rich man don't trouble yourself" "I won't part with the painting now please, your final offer?" "I'll keep the painting whether you report me to the police or not ..." "I don't care a bit report you to the police?" "certainly not!" "as long as the painting's in your possession I have at least a chance to get it, haven't I" "I can wait" "one last question:" "why did you steal the painting, if you didn't want to sell it?" "I have ... private reasons" "Mathilde!" "you!" "I did it!" "what you wanted of me the great, the special action ... and I did it for you, Mathilde well ... what did you do?" "I have ... stolen the Mona Lisa." "here" "don't be silly let's shake hands wish me a nice trip tell me that you'll think of me" "I'll even send you a postcard from Cologne of the Cathedral and when I come back to Paris sometime in the future" "I'll visit you, yes?" "Mathilde, don't you understand!" "That's the Mona Lisa!" "the genuine Mona Lisa!" "I did it for you!" "stop that nonsense but I know that picture, from my last visit" "but you don't know that painting!" "that's the genuine painting!" "Mathilde!" "the painting they're looking for all over the world" "Vincenzo Perugia?" "yes follow me to the Préfecture at once" "what is it?" "Mathilde" "wait here!" "now I'll confess that I'm the thief of the Mona Lisa and I'll tell them too that I did it for you" "I confess everything, Investigating Judge bravo, then it'll be over soon were you in the little brasserie on Tuesday, 22nd August, in the morning?" "yes sir did you play chess with the Louvre's warden at the said time?" "yes, I played chess is it true that the warden didn't leave the table" " during the whole game?" " no, he didn't leave the table" " but I, I have ... can you testify under oath that the warden didn't leave the table?" "but Investigating Judge, please listen to me!" "I, I am ..." "I asked you if you can testify under oath yes or no?" "yes" "I can testify under oath you see!" "then the warden's alibi is correct please make a note the warden's statement is confirmed by his chess partner" "Mr. Investigating Judge" "I have to say something regarding the Mona Lisa affair?" "yes what is it?" "go ahead!" "Mr. Investigating Judge it's true on 22nd August I was in the little brasserie and played chess but ... at 9.45 I left my ... at 9.45 I left my place ... yes?" "yes?" "from Breslau?" "offered for sale to the big art dealers?" "the painting itself hasn't been found yet?" "[the thief] has been arrested while he tried to sell the painting" " what?" " he has been transferred here by special transport from Breslau" " where is he?" " at the commissariat come back tomorrow or the day after but Mr. Investigating Judge!" "Mr. Investigating Judge!" "I am the thief of the Mona Lisa!" "I!" "You are the thief of the Mona Lisa!" "unfortunately I'm not." "but you wanted to sell the painting in Breslau?" "pardon!" "I just offered it for sale" "I didn't really want to sell it but what did you want then?" "I wanted to travel to Paris for free once in my lifetime" "but she should have waited for me!" "how could I keep her?" "she said her train leaves a 3 o'clock and off she went always the same with those women!" "why do you smile, Mona Lisa?" "why do you smile, Mona Lisa?" "why do you smile, Mona Lisa?" "music:" "R. Stolberte, lyrics W. Reiter" "# softly sound the lute's strings # the old familiar melodies # you are the woman to whom I dedicate my love song # you painting out of a fairytale # only to you I dedicate my serenade # beautiful painting, merciless painting" "# your glance means longing # your trick is denial # why do you smile, Mona Lisa?" "# why do you smile, Mona Lisa?" "# does your smile hide sweet sinful passions?" "# or is it a Madonna's smile?" "who can solve the mystery?" "# why do you smile, Mona Lisa?" "# why do you smile, Mona Lisa?" "# you are the woman for whom we are just playthings # you are the woman for whom one steals" "# and that's why I love you, you beautiful painting" "forget about that girl!" "she's run off and she won't come back" "do you know what would be the best for you?" "go back to Italy you'll forget about the girl in your homeland" "Italy?" "Antichita" "to the antiquities dealer Alfredo Gueri, Florence" "The Mona Lisa is in my possession." "400 years ago she was painted in Florence and then abducted to Paris by Napoleon." "I'm bringing the painting back to her hometown after 400 years." "A patriot" "Via ?" "pronto antiquarteri this is the owner of the Mona Lisa speaking" "I've just arrived in Florence if you're interested in the painting come at once" "I warn you, don't let anybody else know about my presence at the slightest danger to my personal freedom I'll destroy the painting but who are you?" "where are you calling from?" "I'm staying at the Hotel Tripoli, room 23, come at once, I'm expecting you" "a madman!" "stop it!" "stop that smile!" "stop that smile of yours!" "a gentleman wants to speak to you" "I'm Alfredo Gueri the antiquities dealer" "please come in" "I'm giving you the Mona Lisa" "I could get millions for her but I don't want to make a business deal with of the painting" "I offer it as a gift to Italy and I'm only asking for so much in order to ... be able to go away and ... buy a few small presents for a lady." "here's the painting" "Hotel Tripoli, room 23 you'll find the Mona Lisa there it's the genuine painting" "I can guarantee it it's the genuine Mona Lisa indeed!" "the thief's name is Vincenzo Perugia a native Italian and besides?" "anything else?" "nothing else, inspector" "# the day of wrath, that day" "# Will dissolve the world in ashes As foretold by David and the Sibyl!" "# How much tremor there will be, when the judge will come, # investigating everything severely!" "# the day of wrath, that day" "# Will dissolve the world in ashes As foretold by David and the Sibyl!" "# How much tremor there will be, when the judge will come, # investigating everything severely!" "# How much tremor there will be, day of wrath, that day," "# How much tremor there will be, day of wrath, that day," "# How much tremor there will be, when the judge will come, # when the judge will come, investigating everything severely!" "# investigating everything severely!" "Die Mona Lisa gefunden!" "La Joconde retrouvée à Florence" "Mona Lisa found - discovery of the picture in Florence - arrest of an Italian" "Megkerült a Mona Lisa." "Közszemiére tették Firenzében." "Mona Lisa ritrovata Il ladro Vincenzo Perugia arrestato a Firenze" "Ìîíà-Ëèçà íàéäåíà" "[Hebrew]" "[Japanese]" "Your Excellency!" "In the name of the Italian government I bring the painting of the Mona Lisa back to you." "you!" "they found the thief of the Mona Lisa a young Italian listen despite all efforts the thief couldn't be made to reveal his real motive for the theft he remains silent to all questions the upcoming trial will be held in Florence" "Vincenzo Perugia the thief of the Mona Lisa" "Vincenzo Perugia and I didn't believe him!" "why?" "what did you not believe?" "do you know that Perugia?" "do I know him?" "but he stole the Mona Lisa for me!" "just for me!" "you're nuts" "I am the woman for whom a man committed the greatest theft of the century that's a good one and you?" "what have you done for me?" "you bought a few hats, a few rings" "I beg your pardon, I didn't exactly steal them, didn't I?" "but that's the point!" "you didn't even steal for me!" "I'm going to Florence." "I must be there, at his trial." "Vincenzo Perugia your silence only worsens your case why don't you speak?" "why did you commit the theft?" "we know from you Paris landlady's statement ... that you had an intimate relationship with a woman at the time of the theft" "answer me, Perugia is this woman connected to the theft?" "will you answer, Perugia!" "did you steal the painting out of love to a woman?" "but you were in love with a woman at the time?" "I have never loved a woman, Your Honour only the painting" "and now ..." "I'll tell you the real reason ... why I stole the painting" "to take revenge, on the Emperor Napoleon I" "Patriots!" "a man from our midst has revenged the nation his name is Vincenzo Perugia" "100 years ago the Emperor Napoleon plundered the museums of Italy and carried off abroad our works of art" "and Vincenzo Perugia brought back the painting of the Mona Lisa created by Italy's greatest son, Leonardo da Vinci, back to his homeland." "vivat!" "vivat!" "Patriots!" "This Vincenzo Perugia has been found guilty he has proven by his action that the spirit of antique Rome ... even today ... in its pure, undegenerated form ... has been preserved." "for this reason" "Vincenzo Perugia is sentenced to 1 year and 2 months imprisonment." "Vivat Perugia!" "vivat Perugia!" "Vivat!" "vivat!" "This, ladies and gentlemen, is the recovered Mona Lisa" "The end subtitles: serdar202"