Synopsis

Ruben Brandt, a famous psychotherapist, is forced to steal 13 paintings from the world's renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, MoMA... “The Collector” quickly becomes the most wanted criminal in the world. Gangsters and headhunters chase him around the world while the reward for his capture keeps rising, approaching a hundred million dollars. A cartel of insurance companies entrusts Mike Kowalski, a private detective and leading expert on art theft, to solve the “Collector Case.”

Milorad Krstić

Milorad Krstić is a Middle European artist, born in Dornberk, Slovenia, in 1952. He took a degree in law at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Since 1989 he has been living and working in Budapest, Hungary as a painter and multimedia artist. He immersed himself into different fields of visual art through painting, drawing, sculpting, documentary films, stage design, set design, photography, interactive CD-ROM, etc. For his first short animated film My Baby Left Me he was awarded with a Silver Bear in 1995 at the Berlin Film Festival, and his for interactive CD ROM, Das Anatomische Theater he won a MIFA award for The Best Interactive Project in Annecy, 1999.