Film Commission Torino Piemonte

When German police found more than one thousand bronze statues by artist Alberto Giacometti in a warehouse in Mainz in 2009, they had no idea they were walking into one of the largest art frauds ever committed on German grounds. For more than a decade, an unknown art gallery owner, a strange German count and a mysterious Dutch forger sold their fakes to auction houses, museums and institutions across Europe. With the dramaturgy of true crime mixed with the improbable situations brought by an improvised criminal gang, the series follows the investigations of Stuttgart police inspector Ernst Scholler to uncover the fraud. While Robert Driessen—the forger himself—takes us into the great Giacometti art scam and a life full of art fraud: deals with auction houses, collectors landing by helicopter on his garden, deliveries of hundreds of bronze statues on the German autobahn, his escape to Thailand, all the way to his arrest in 2015. A whimsical, unexpected, and larger than fiction crime series, yet it is all true…Aside from thousands of bronze statues.