Nightwatching (2007) ( Rembrandt's J'Accuse ) ( La Ronde de nuit (Night watching) )

Nightwatching (2007) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Rembrandt's J'Accuse
Alternate Title: La Ronde de nuit (Night watching)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
155 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

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
Natalie 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.

Director Peter Greenaway explores the life of Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt in a biographical feature that uses the 1642 painting 'Night Watch' as a launching point to explore the 17th Century artist's life from an entirely new perspective. British film and television star Martin Henderson assumes the role of the prolific painter, with Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, and Emily Holmes assuming the roles of his wife and mistresses respectively.

An account of how Rembrandt's group portrait in 1642 of the Militia Company of Amsterdam Musketeers, known as 'The Nightwatch', led to the painter's social and financial downfall, as he unravelled a conspiracy to murder.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 11 December, 2010.

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