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'The Duke' Features Helen Mirren and Stolen Art at the Virtual KCET Cinema Series

A Q&A will immediately follow the screening on April 20 with Helen Mirren, legendary actor and KCET Lumière Award recipient.
April 12, 2022
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The film screens on Tuesday, April 20 at 7 p.m. PT. Only $10 per viewing link. Limited space available.

The true story behind the movie. In 1961, Francisco Goya’s portrait of The Duke of Wellington was put up for auction at Sotheby's. The New York collector, Charles Wrightsman, offered £140,000 (the equivalent of £3,000,000 today). However, the British government intervened in support of a matching offer to ensure the painting stayed in the U.K. The painting was saved for the Nation and put on display in the National Gallery. Nineteen days later the portrait became the first (and the last) painting to be stolen from the Gallery in its 196-year history.

Immediately following the screening, Deadline's chief film critic Pete Hammond, who can also be seen on KCET's Must See Movies, will moderate a Q&A with legendary actor and KCET Lumière Award recipient Helen Mirren.

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