A real Vermeer
- Rinkel Film (NL)
- Fu Works Production (NL)
- Cadenza Films (NL)
- Living Stone (BE)
- Nukleus Films (HR)
- Dutch
Rinkel Film
Reinier Selen
T +31 20 616 32 31
reiner@rinkelfilm.com
Jeroen Spitzenberger, Lize Feryn, Roeland Fernhout, Porgy Franssen, Raymond Thiry
Image : Goert Giltay
Sound : Simone Galavazi
Decors : Ben Zuydwijk & Audrey Hernu
Costumes : Linda Bogers
Make-up : Claudine Moureaud
Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920’s Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics find his work old-fashioned and they call him a copycat. Just to prove a point, he produces a fake Vermeer and tries to pass it off as a real one. It works. Instead of revealing the truth and thereby embarrassing the art world, he continues to make money off of his many forgeries. Soon he is caught in a web of lies and deceit, and his life spins out of control. Then, one day, high ranking Nazi Hermann Göring knocks on his door, looking for a Vermeer for his private collection…