Goltzius and The Pelican Company
Goltzius and the Pelican Company
2012, Film, 128 min, Biography, Comedy, History, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 64
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. In return, he promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of illustrating the Old Testament’s biblical stories. Erotic tales of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Deliah and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatisations of these erotic stories for his court.
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Cast
- Ramsey Nasr as Hendrick Goltzius
- F. Murray Abraham as The Margrave
- Hendrik Aerts as Strachey
- Boris Bakal as Messenger
- Giulio Berruti as Boethius
- Francesco De Vito as Rabbi Moab
- Pippo Delbono as Samuel van Gouda
- Lars Eidinger as Amos Quadfrey
- Anne Louise Hassing as Susannah
- Lisette Malidor as Ebola
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