2025 Sarasota Film Festival
The Stamp Thief
Documentary Feature
Screenings
- π
Sunday, April 6 at 2:00 PM EDT
Ends 3:15 PM EDT
πRingling College / Morganroth Auditorium
About This Screening
PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE IN THIS EVENT - IT WAS ORIGINALLY LISTED FOR 12PM IN THE FILM GUIDE BUT IS NOW AT 2PM!
About this film
Part detective story, part heist film, and part historical reckoning, The Stamp Thief is an engrossing cat-and-mouse journey that delves into a decades-old mystery rooted in the Holocaust. The film reveals the story of a rogue Nazi officer tasked with cataloging the valuables of Jews sent to concentration camps. Rather than aiding the victims, he seized the opportunity to steal millions of dollars worth of rare stamps and buried them in his homeβnow in modern-day Poland. In a real-life, Argo-like mission, former Seinfeld producer Gary Gilbert embarks on a daring quest to uncover the truth and recover the stolen stamps. Disguising his investigation as a movie shoot, Gilbert seeks to return the stamps to their rightful heirs, delivering a small yet powerful act of justice more than 75 years after the Holocaust.
Credits
- Director
- Dan Sturman
- Producer
- Dylan Nelson, Gary Gilbert, Dan Sturman
- Cinematographer
- Anthony Savini, Richard Wong, Jayme Roy
- Editor
- Tom Putnam, Jeffrey Doe, Jim Stewart

