Goltzius and the Pelican Company

Goltzius and the Pelican Company is a 2012 historical drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway and starring Ramsey Nasr, F. Murray Abraham and Giulio Berruti.^[7][8][9]

Goltzius and the Pelican Company
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Directed by	Peter Greenaway
Written by	Peter Greenaway
Produced by	Kees Kasander Catherine Dussart Mike Downey Sam Taylor Igor Nola
Starring	Ramsey Nasr F. Murray Abraham Giulio Berruti
Cinematography	Reinier van Brummelen
Edited by	Elmer Leupen
Music by	Marco Robino
Production companies	Kasander Film Company CDP Film and Music Entertainment Mainframe Film Production
Distributed by	A-Film Benelux (Netherlands) [1] Axiom Films (United Kingdom) Epicentre Films (France) Maremosso (Italy) [2]
Release dates	30 September 2012 (2012-09-30) (NFF)[3] 18 September 2014 (2014-09-18) (Netherlands)[4]
Running time	128 minutes
Countries	Netherlands France United Kingdom Croatia
Language	English
Budget	€2,05 million[5]
Box office	$73,393[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.^[10] 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.^[11]

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 and reception

Goltzius and the Pelican Company^[12][13] made its debut at the 2012 Netherlands Film Festival.^[14]

The film was released in cinemas two years after its debut in 2012.^[9] It was released in the Netherlands on September 18, 2014,^[4] and it became the least visited Dutch co-production of that year with only 110 tickets sold.^[15]

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^[16] in 2013.