Art lovers and mystery fans rejoice: this film about the largest art heist in history - a $300 million 1990 robbery at Boston's palatial Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - is filled with tales of missing Rembrandts, Vermeer's "The Concert" (the world's most valuable stolen painting), Irish gangsters, back-room politicians, eccentric collectors and a palazzo style private mansion-turned-museum with possibly the worst security system on record. At the heart of this fascinating whodunit is 75-year-old detective Harold J. Smith, famous for recovering millions in stolen art and antiquities. With filmmaker Rebecca Dreyfus and cameraman Albert Maysles in tow, the unstoppable Smith continues his lifelong obsession with solving this one final crime, despite a clearly distressing battle with degenerative skin cancer. A "treasure trove of outrageous characters, rampant speculation, personal obsessions and a glimpse into the rarefied world of art collecting," this is a tribute not only to irreplaceable masterpieces, but to irreplaceable people as well. (Ruth Cowing)

2005 Sarasota International Film Festival: Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature

2005 NY/Avignon Film Festival: WINNER Best Documentary Film and Best Original Film Score

Director: Rebecca Dreyfus
Producers: Rebecca Dreyfus, Susannah Ludwig

Rebecca Dreyfus is an award-winning director, writer and producer. Her first award-winning feature film, BYE-BYE BABUSHKA, opened to critical acclaim in New York and Los Angeles and has been shown on television in more than 25 countries. Her two short films, THE WAITING and ROADBLOCK, have also received prizes around the world. Dreyfus was recently named a filmmaking fellow by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and a screenwriting fellow by The Sundance Film Institute.