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Woman in Gold

2015. Directed by Simon Curtis, written by Alexi Kaye Campbell and E. Randol Schoenberg and Maria Altmann.

The Bechdel test

Bechdel score

3 / 3

Passes

  1. Yes 1. At least two women
    12 women characters. 12 of them speak.
  2. Yes 2. Who talk to each other
    In 6 scenes out of 229.
  3. Yes 3. About something besides a man
    In those scenes, our script parser found no man named. See the scene.

Second opinion

Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 3 out of 3.

Poster for Woman in Gold

The film

Maria Altmann (Dame Helen Mirren) sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.

Released
10 Apr 2015
Genres
Biography, Drama, History
Rated
PG-13
IMDb
7.3 / 10
Metascore
51 / 100
Awards
6 nominations
Elsewhere
View on IMDb

Starring, by lines spoken

  • Women
  • Men
  • Not in the cast list
  • Bigger name, more lines
  1. Randy 279 lines, man
  2. Maria 257 lines, woman
  3. Hubertus 73 lines, man
  4. Pam 52 lines, woman
  5. Sherman 19 lines, man
  6. Gustav Gustav 18 lines, man
  7. Fritz Fritz 15 lines, man
  8. Adele Adele 14 lines, woman
  9. Toman 13 lines
  10. Barbara 9 lines, woman
Full cast, 35 people
  • Helen Mirren as Maria Altmann
  • Ryan Reynolds as Randol Schoenberg
  • Tatiana Maslany as Young Maria Altmann
  • Katie Holmes as Pam Schoenberg
  • Max Irons as Fritz Altmann
  • Charles Dance as Sherman
  • Daniel Brühl as Hubertus Czernin
  • Tom Schilling as Heinrich
  • Elizabeth McGovern as Judge Florence-Marie Cooper
  • Antje Traue as Adele Bloch-Bauer
  • Jonathan Pryce as Chief Justice Rehnquist
  • Frances Fisher as Barbara Schoenberg
  • Moritz Bleibtreu as Gustav Klimt
  • Allan Corduner as Gustav Bloch-Bauer
  • Henry Goodman as Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer
  • Olivia Silhavy as Elisabeth Gehrer
  • Ben Miles as Ronald Lauder
  • Alma Hasun as Luise
  • Justus von Dohnányi as Dreimann
  • Ludger Pistor as Rudolph Wran
  • Nina Kunzendorf as Therese Bloch-Bauer
  • Crystal Clarke as Bookshop Cashier
  • Anthony Howell as Austrian Official
  • Nellie Schillimg as Child Maria
  • Milica Bogojevic as Child Luise
  • Christian Dolezal as Felix Landau
  • Rolf Saxon as Stan Gould
  • Harry Ditson as Franks
  • Stephen Greif as Bergen
  • John Moraitis as Brown
  • Doron Davidson as BBS Associate
  • Milly Thomas as Stewardess
  • Cornelia Ivancan as Anna the Mole
  • Christoph Moosbrugger as Hotel Receptionist
  • Susi Stach as Woman in Courtyard

Who talks, scene by scene

Lines of dialogue in every 5 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 5% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.

Women

Men

Scene 1 Scene 229

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Show the numbers
ScenesWomen's linesMen's lines
1 to 574
6 to 10184
11 to 151127
16 to 202116
21 to 2597
26 to 301527
31 to 351613
36 to 4075
41 to 4563
46 to 501123
51 to 55111
56 to 60914
61 to 651514
66 to 7012
71 to 75610
76 to 8076
81 to 85815
86 to 9034
91 to 95611
96 to 1001433
101 to 10565
106 to 110612
111 to 11503
116 to 12000
121 to 12502
126 to 13002
131 to 1351412
136 to 1401212
141 to 14554
146 to 150127
151 to 155313
156 to 1601014
161 to 1651011
166 to 17059
171 to 1751813
176 to 1801712
181 to 185427
186 to 1901210
191 to 1951211
196 to 200715
201 to 20504
206 to 210312
211 to 2151615
216 to 22040
221 to 22500
226 to 22900

The evidence

  • Straight from the script
  • Counted from the script and the credits

Tap an exhibit to open it.

Exhibit A: the passing scenes

The scene our parser counted as passing, word for word.
PAM: She said you should do it in honour of her grandparents. MARIA: Siegmund and Malvina. She had the most beautiful eyes, like an owl.
MARIA: Maybe you should change lanes. PAM: With pleasure, Mrs. Altmann.
MARIA: I wasn’t going to miss the fun part. It’s like a James Bond film and you are Sean Connery. ANNA: Hello, I’m Anna. It’s an honour to meet you.
MARIA: It really isn’t much of an inconvenience. If I wasn’t here, I’d either be at my shop or at home watching ‘Days of Our Lives’. JUDGE COOPER: I’m glad to hear that, Mrs. Altmann. But from now on, would you mind speaking only when you are asked? There are certain procedures which ne…
MARIA: Like you have spiders crawling in your underwear all the time. PAM: Sweetie, will you stop looking at your watch every two minutes? MARIA: You’re making us all nervous.

Exhibit B: every 100 lines

Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 44 are women's.

367 lines from women, 474 from men.

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit C: who's in it

12 women and 20 men in the cast. 12 women and 22 men from it get lines.

Characters

With lines

  • Women
  • Men

Exhibit D: who gets heard

The first woman speaks at line 2 of 883. The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 20 lines.

Every line of dialogue, first to last

  • First line by a woman
  • Longest stretch with no woman speaking

Words spoken

Women speak 42% of the words (4,769), men 58% (6,609). Women have 44% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.

Exhibit E: the test the other way

Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.

Conversations between two named characters

Exhibit F: behind the camera

6 of the 17 people in these jobs are women. Across the whole crew, 35% of the people whose gender is listed are women.

Directed by
Simon Curtis (man)
Written by
Alexi Kaye Campbell (man)
Produced by
David M. Thompson (man), Kris Thykier (man), Joanie Blaikie (woman), Peter Heslop (man)
Shot by
Ross Emery (man)
Edited by
Peter Lambert (man)
Music by
Martin Phipps (man), Hans Zimmer (man)
Production design by
Jim Clay (man)
Costumes by
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor (woman)
Cast by
Deborah Aquila (woman), Simone Bär (woman), Tricia Wood (woman), Jennifer L. Smith (woman), Gary Davy (man)

The crew, department by department

  • Production

    6 women, 10 men, 4 not listed

  • Costume & Make-Up

    7 women, 2 men, 3 not listed

  • Sound

    1 women, 6 men, 2 not listed

  • Art

    1 women, 3 men, 1 not listed

  • Directing

    1 women, 3 men

  • Camera

    0 women, 3 men

  • Visual Effects

    2 women, 1 men

  • Other crew

    0 women, 2 men

  • Women
  • Men
  • Gender not listed on TMDB

Exhibit G: how old the stars were

Women: 44 on average. Men: 41 on average. The top-billed cast, at the film's release.

Women

Tatiana Maslany 29, Antje Traue 34, Katie Holmes 36, Elizabeth McGovern 53, Helen Mirren 69

Men

Max Irons 29, Tom Schilling 33, Daniel Brühl 36, Ryan Reynolds 38, Charles Dance 68

Exhibit H: the money

It made 5.6 times what it cost.

Budget
$11 million
Box office
$61.6 million

From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.

About this analysis

Our parser read the script: 229 scenes and 883 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works

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