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A REAL VERMEER (EEN ECHTE VERMEER)
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Completed - DUTCH - Historical, Drama - 110 minutes

Log Line

An exceptionally talented but narcissistic painter clashes with the art critics, who are in love with fashionable movements such as impressionism and expressionism. Van Meegeren decides to take revenge by creating ‘new’ paintings of his great idol Johannes Vermeer.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2016 (Debut)
Full history

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Rudolf VAN DEN BERG
Writer(s) : Jan EILANDER, Rudolf VAN DEN BERG
Cast : Jeroen SPITZENBERGER, Lize FERYN, Roeland FERNHOUT, Porgy FRANSSEN, Mingus DAGELET, Dewi REIJS, Raymond THIRY, Claude HUMBERT, Hans CROISET, Viviane DE MUYCNK

Producer(s) : Reinier SELEN (Rinkel Film B.V.), San FU (FU WORKS), Jeroen KOOLBERGEN (Cadenza Films), Sinisa JURICIC (Nukleus), Martin DEWITTE (LIVING STONE)

Synopsis

True story. Talented artist Han van Meegeren is a rebel in de 1920's Dutch art scene because his work is in the style of the Old Masters like Vermeer. When he falls madly in love with the wife of Holland's most important critic, he makes a powerful enemy who destroys his career. To take revenge, he fools the art world and humiliates his enemy by producing a fake Vermeer. However, he chooses to keep quiet and win the hearth of Jolanka. Soon he is making a fortune from his forgeries, but when nazi Hermann Göring is looking for a Vermeer for his own collection, Han finds himself caught in a web of betrayal and deceit that could cost him his life.

Production

Country(ies) : NETHERLANDS, LUXEMBOURG, CROATIA, BELGIUM

Financing plan : Creative Europe MEDIA
Netherlands Film Fund
Netherlands Film Production Incentive
Stichting Abraham Tuschinski foNDS
Cinéart
Luxembourg Film Fund
Eurimages

Start of shooting : December 2015

BELGIUM Jan 25, 2017 CINÉART BELGIUM
ITALY DRAKA CINEMA PR
NETHERLAND Nov 03, 2016 CINÉART NETHERL


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