The pranksters who stole a statue from superscammer Bernard Madoff’s Florida estate may have been inspired by a movie about young leftist radicals who kidnap and murder a tycoon.
Madoff’s $10,000, 5-foot copper statue was found in bushes Wednesday behind the Palm Beach Country Club with a note signed by “the educators” and warning Madoff “to return stolen property to rightful owners.”
In the 2005 German film “The Edukators,” which received mostly positive reviews during a New York run, three radicals break into homes of the wealthy, not to steal but to rearrange furniture as an anti-capitalist statement. They leave behind notes similar to the one left by the statuenappers – “Your days of plenty are numbered” – signing them “the edukators.”