Death Comes to Venice

In Venice, the restorer Lukas Albrecht dies in a canal. Lukas's wife Anna does not believe it was an accident. She travels from Vienna to Venice with her son Paul to identify her husband. She learns from Rafael, Lukas' best friend, that Lukas worked on the restoration of the painting Portrait of a Lady by Sandro Botticelli in the Gambrini Museum, but it turns out to be a forged one of Lukas, while the original has disappeared. The museum director Alexandra von Reuten and Captain Carlo Gabato from the Department of Protection of Art and Cultural Heritage discover Federica Patta and a businessman Frank Lee repeatedly observed the Botticelli painting before it disappeared. On the advice of Captain Gabato, Anna asks Rafael to take Paul back to Vienna. Anna discovers clues left by Lukas. It is related with a painting by Max Ernst. She rushes to the museum, where she finds von Reuten murdered. The Max Ernst painting was recently sent to Ansgar Baumgartner in Vienna. Anna goes back to Vienna to ask Baumgartner about the Botticelli painting, but he denies. Captain Gabato tells Anna about Rafael and his girlfriend Federica. His gallery was on the verge of bankruptcy when he received a lucrative offer from Frank Lee for the exchange of the Botticelli painting. Lukas was to falsify the painting for Rafael, who recommended him to the job in the museum. Anna and Captain Gabato find the Botticelli painting in the delivery box of the Max Ernst painting. Rafael, Federica, and Schuster, who works for Frank Lee, demand the painting in exchange for Paul. Rafael is shot by Schuster after Federica recognizes the painting for exchange is the forged one of Lukas instead of the original. The police arrest Federica and Schuster.