Nightwatching ( La Ronde de nuit ) ( Nocna straz )

Nightwatching (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La Ronde de nuit
Alternate Title: Nocna straz
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
136 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Box Set
Documentary
Featurette
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Peter Greenaway

Written By:
Peter Greenaway

Actors:
Martin Freeman ..... Rembrandt van Rijn
Emily Holmes ..... Hendrickje
Eva Birthistle ..... Saskia
Jodhi May ..... Geertje
Toby Jones ..... Gerard Dou
Jonathan Holmes ..... Ferdinand Bol
Michael Teigen ..... Carel Fabritius
Kevin McNulty ..... Engelen
Agata Buzek ..... Titia Uylenburgh
Nathalie Press ..... Marieke
Fiona O'Shaughnessy ..... Marita
Reimer van Beek ..... Titus - newborn
Robert Zalecki ..... Titus - 4 months old
Kacper Kasiecki ..... Titus - toddler
Anna Antonowicz ..... Catharina

Synopsis:

The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age. Rembrandt's great good fortune turns. Saskia dies. Rembrandt reveals the accusation of murder in the painting and the conspirators plan revenge. They set out to discredit him at home and abroad. They plant a treacherous mistress, Geertje, to seduce him. They try to blind him. They plan his social and financial ruin, and to create the circumstances for his slide into penury, insult his young mistress Hendrickje, conspire to destroy his son, and bring Rembrandt to his knees. The bold and courageous painting of the Nightwatch, exceptional in aesthetics and content, is Rembrandt's most celebrated painting, it consolidated his reputation as a master-painter but it also destroyed him socially and financially.

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in his famous painting "The Night Watch".

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 12 May, 2009.

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