Vincenzo Peruggia: The Louvre Employee Who Stole The Mona Lisa

Who was the man who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, hid it in his flat for two years and brought it back to Italy – and what were his motivations? An unsolved mystery. Until now. Writer-director Joe Medeiros, former head writer of The Tonight Show, traces the path of Vincenzo Peruggia, charged with the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa from The Louvre, and finds the story of a daughter mourning the father she never knew and a country recovering from old wounds.

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