The Stamp Thief

El ladrón de estampillas

The Stamp Thief is an immersive cat and mouse journey which solves a crime decades old.

Here is the background: while the Nazis occupied Poland during WWII, a rogue Nazi officer, whose job it was to catalogue stamps and valuables belonging to Jews being sent to concentration camps. This is a story of that Nazi officer who decided to pocket millions of dollars worth of stamps stolen from these victims of the Holocaust.

For safekeeping, he buried them in the basement of his home in what is today Poland.
Flash forward to the modern day. Thanks to the discovery of a detailed map showing the approximate location of this stolen buried treasure, a group of Americans return to Poland with a plan to right the wrong committed nearly 75 years before. That is where our story begins…with one-time Seinfeld producer Gary Gilbert setting out to confirm the story and recover the stamps. His tactic: a fake movie shoot. His goal: to return the stamps to their rightful owners, hopefully delivering a small measure of justice more than 70 years after the Holocaust. Where the story ends will shock and thrill.

SPONSORED BY:
Ed Kroft

Festivals and Awards

• Nomineer: Local Heroes Competition, Cleveland International film Festival, 2025