well, i think it takes a lot of effort and a lot of patience. our average cases take many years. not always quite as long as maria s case, but many years before we get to the end. of course, the end is not guarantied. what we try to do is to just keep moving forward on behalf of a group of people whose culture was destroyed and we want to restore it to those families and in some instances, to the survivors when they re around. we want to restore to them a sense of feeling about their culture. donald burris, thank you so much for sharing with us the back story to this. we salute you for your work in this area. thank you. thank you very much. we salute maria and her memory. and it is indeed a powerful story of a woman who refused to give up. she fought hard to get what was hers originally. and it s not easy.
talk to us about the legal fight with the austrian government to get back that artwork, what was the hardest part of that battle? i think the hardest part of the battle was for us to remain as resolute as maria, and as confident as maria, through all the obstacles put up by the legal teams on the other side, put up by the governmental authorities, and perhaps even by commentators and persons who, for whatever reason, failed to recognize what we recognize, the inalienable right of her to get those paintings back. and maria altman s aunt, adele, is the subject of that portrait, and her lawyer took this battle to retrieve the artwork very personally, didn t he? how true to the real story is this movie?