How To Steal a Million

The film stars Hepburn as Nicole, a girl from a good family living in Paris with her father, Charles Bonnet (Hugh Griffith). She is very fond of her parent, who, however, has a ‘small’ defect: he enjoys falsifying paintings. Charles, in fact, has a real talent as a painter, but instead of honestly venting his creative vein, he prefers to paint pictures in the Impressionist or Post-Impressionist style, signing them with the great names of Cézanne, Monet or Van Gogh. And he sells them, of course. At astronomical prices. Nicole is deeply opposed to her father’s swindling activities, but also finds that it is impossible to convince him to stop. Their life could go on peacefully, were it not for the fact that Charles sins of hubris by lending a sculpture to an important Parisian museum. None other than a Venus carved in marble by Benvenuto Cellini. Or at least, that’s what he says. In fact, the habit of producing forgeries runs in the family. The work, in fact, was made years ago by Nicole’s grandfather, who portrayed his grandmother in it.