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For nearly 40 years, Wolfgang Beltracchi fooled the international art world for the largest art forgery scandal of the post-war era. With his forgeries of great masters such as Max Ernt and Heinrich Campendonk, he conceived renowned experts, curators, art dealers and even auctioneers in Sotheby and Christie. Passed off as an original Heinrich Campendonk and regarded by specialists as a "key work of modernism", "Beltracchi's" "Red Painting with Horses, 1914" was sold at auction for a record 2.8 million Euros. But it was here that the master forger made the mistake that was to expose him... In "BELTRACCHI - THE ART OF FORGERY", Wolfgang and his wife Helene chat openly about their quixotic adventures in an overheated art world ruled by blind greed, and in which apparently no one has an answer to the question as to what is an original and what is a forgery. This film was awarded Best Documentary at the German Film Awards.
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