Goltzius & the Pelican Company

Synopsis

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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When & where

Streaming TBA

Top of the call sheet

• 
  F. Murray Abraham
  as The Margrave
• 
  Ramsey Nasr
  as Hendrick Goltzius
• 
  Kate Moran
  as Adaela
• 
  Pippo Delbono
  as Samuel van Gouda
• 
  Giulio Berruti
  as Thomas Boethius
• 
  Lars Eidinger
  as Amos Quadfrey

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