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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
History /
Mystery
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Release:
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Director:
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Peter Greenaway
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Actors:
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Jodhi May,
Agata Buzek,
Fiona O'Shaughnessy,
Reimer van Beek,
Robert Zalecki,
Kacper Kasiecki,
Anna Antonowicz,
Martin Freeman,
Emily Holmes,
Eva Birthistle,
Toby Jones,
Jonathan Holmes,
Michael Teigen,
Kevin McNulty,
Natalie Press
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Duration:
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135 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)78.5
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Plot Summary:
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The year 1642 marks the turning point in the existence of the pre-eminent Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a loaded respected repute into a discredited indigent. At the insistence of his fruitful wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to portray the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a body sketch that wish later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He quickly discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and exclusive power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles o... n a foul murder. Courageous in the birth of a longed-fitting for son and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his indictment meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age. Rembrandt's critical all right lot turns. Saskia dies. Rembrandt reveals the denunciation of murder in the painting and the conspirators project revenge. They set in sight to smirch him at place and broadly. They ingrain a treacherous inamorata, Geertje, to seduce him. They have a stab to gormless him. They plan his social and fiscal ruin, and to beget the circumstances allowing for regarding his slide into penury, insult his progeny live-in lover Hendrickje, conspire to destroy his son, and bring about a display Rembrandt to his knees. The vigorous and courageous painting of the Nightwatch, exceptional in aesthetics and content, is Rembrandt's most celebrated painting, it consolidated his famous for as a employer-painter but it also destroyed him socially and financially.
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