i am helen mirim. i am an ack who portrayed the role in the film woman in gold. will explain a little bit. this is the true story of a woman who overcame enormous odds and righted a wrong that had stood for decades. 60 years after fleeing vienna during the nazi era, mrs. altman who was by then an elderly jewish woman, began a many years long journey to reclaim niemi possessions seized by the nazis. among them was a famous painting, which was a painting of her aunt. reclaim what was rightfully hers, was to fight the austrian establishment and take the case to the u.s. supreme court. on a more personal level, maria had to confront those terrible memories of the end of her family life in vienna. returning to the country she had been forced to flee by the nazis and reliving the pain of having everything she held dear being riched away from her and the people she loved murdered in the death camps. so i personally had to go on a journey portraying maria altman, and the journey -- i am a child of the second world war. i was born in 1945, and the memory of the second wor