When Does "WOMAN IN GOLD" (2015) Take Place?
"WOMAN IN GOLD" is a historical fiction film written by Alexi Kaye Campbell that released April 1st, 2015. So when is "WOMAN IN GOLD" set?
It takes place in the years:
We know this because the main action depicts the beginnings .
1998 AD - 2006 AD
We know this because the main action depicts the beginnings .
Furthermore, the first shot of the main action includes a timer and place setting subtitle that reads: "LOS ANGELES 1998".
More specifically, as the real-world lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg is seen continuing his research, he uses the real-world "AltaVista Connections" search engine (first made available to the public on December 15th, 1995 AD) and the screen clearly displays "March 22, 199" (obscuring the final digit). So it must be March of 1998 AD at this point.
Soon, a relative time setting subtitle reading "? MONTHS LATER" appears after the AltaVista search scene ?. So it is probably December? of 1998 AD during these scenes.
3?.1,998 + 9? months = 12?.1,998.
Later, the plot proceeds and another subtitle tells the audience it is now "? MONTHS LATER". So it is likely be April? of 1999 AD by the following scenes.
12?.1,998 + 4? months = 4?.1,999.
Afterward, there are no more subtitles but .
Additionally, the film opens with a prologue depicting the real-world Austrian painter Gustav Klimt painting "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" (a.k.a. "The Lady in Gold" or "The Woman in Gold"), which happened from 1903 AD to 1907 AD. It is otherwise unplaceable.
Later, throughout the narrative, there are flashbacks to the childhood of the real-world Maria Altmann (née Bloch-Bauer) and during them it is implied "The Woman in Gold" is only recently completed. That would make it sometime in 1907 AD or 1908 AD.
Finally, other flashbacks depict the Bloch-Bauer family experiencing the Anschluss, Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany quasi-legal annexation of Austria, which happened in the real world on March 12th, 1938 AD. So it must be March of 1938 AD during the later flashbacks.
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