Goltzius and the Pelican Company

2012 film

Kees Kasander
Catherine Dussart
Mike Downey
Sam Taylor
Igor Nola

Starring

Ramsey Nasr
F. Murray Abraham
Giulio Berruti

CinematographyReinier van BrummelenEdited byElmer LeupenMusic byMarco RobinoDistributed by

Kasander Film Company
Film and Music Entertainment
Catherine Dussart Productions
MP Film
Nederkands Fonds voor de Film
Rotterdam Film Fund
Centre National du Cinéma
Eurimages
Head Gear Films
Metrol Technology
Bankside Films^[1]

Release date

30 September 2012 (2012-09-30) (Nederlands Film Festival)^[2]

Countries

Netherlands
France
United Kingdom
Croatia

LanguageEnglishBudget€2,05 million^[3]

Goltzius and the Pelican Company is a 2012 historical film by writer-director Peter Greenaway.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Plot

The film is based on the life of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. He seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. Goltzius promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of the Old Testament Biblical stories. Erotic tales of the temptation of Adam and Eve, Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Joseph and Potiphar's wife, Samson and Delilah, and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatizations of these erotic stories for his court.

Goltzius and the Pelican Company is the second feature in Greenaway's film series "Dutch Masters", which includes the previous film Nightwatching.^[7] The third entry in the series was to focus on Hieronymus Bosch and its release was planned to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Bosch's death in 2016.^[8]^[9]

Cast

Ramsey Nasr as Hendrick Goltzius
F. Murray Abraham as The Margrave of Alsace
Goran Bogdan as Gottlieb
Truus de Boer as Sophie
Nada Abrus as Marie
Duško Valentić as Priest
Milan Pleština as Priest 3
Enes Vejzović as Churchman 1
Vedran Živolić as Joachim
Katija Zubčić as Beatrice Fereres
Boris Bakal as Messenger
Vedran Komerički as Churchman
Samir Vujčić as Priest 2
Tvrtko Jurić as Priest 4

The Pelican Company

Giulio Berruti as Thomas Boethius
Kate Moran as Adaela
Flavio Parenti [it] as Eduard Hansa
Anne Louise Hassing as Susannah
Hendrik Aerts as Strachey
Halina Reijn as Portia
Lars Eidinger as Quadfrey
Pippo Delbono as Samuel van Gouda

The Margrave's family and court

Maaike Neuville as Isadora
Lisette Malidor [fr] as Ebola Goyal
Vincent Riotta as Ricardo del Monte
Francesco De Vito as Rabbi Moab
Stefano Scherini [it] as Johannes Cleaver

Release

Goltzius and the Pelican Company^[10] was released on 17 September 2012.^[11]

Awards

Greenaway won the FICE Award for Best European Director at the FICE- Federazione Italiana Cinema d’Essai in 2014. He was also nominated for the New Visions Award for Best Motion Picture at the Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival^[12] in 2013.

References

^ Macnab, Geoffrey (13 May 2010). "Bankside slate adds Peter Greenaway, Famke Janssen, Antonia Bird films". Screen Daily. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
^ "Netherlands Film Festival". Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
^ Macnab, Geoffrey (13 February 2011). "Greenaway readies Goltzius, Eisenstein projects". Screen Daily. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
^ Child, Ben. "Peter Greenaway to receive Bafta for outstanding British contribution to cinema". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ Rosser, Michael. "BAFTA to honour Peter Greenaway". Screen Daily. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ Kemp, Stewart (13 February 2014). "British Director Peter Greenaway to Receive BAFTA Honor". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ Morgan, Nesta. "Nightwatching". Film&festivals. 2 (2). United Kingdom: Wallflower Press, Film Culture Ltd.: 5. ISSN 1755-5485.
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^ Robbey, Tim. "Goltzius and the Pelican Company, review: frisky and witty". The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ Bradshaw, Peter. "Goltzius and the Pelican Company review – Peter Greenaway's modern court masque". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ "Goltzius & The Pelican Company". sitgesfilmfestival. Retrieved 31 March 2015.