Goltzius & the Pelican Company

Goltzius & the Pelican Company

★ 6.1IMDb Score
Released:2012-11-12
Duration:128 min
Director:Peter Greenaway
Actors:F. Murray Abraham, Ramsey Nasr, Kate Moran, Pippo Delbono, Giulio Berruti
Production:Film and Music Entertainment, Head Gear Films, Metrol Technology, MP Films, Catherine Dussart Productions, Inspire Pictures, Kasander Film Company

Overview:

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.

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