A Real Vermeer

A Real Vermeer (2016)

TMDb

5.5

03/11/2016 • 1h 45m
original-title

Een echte Vermeer

status

Released

production-companies

Rinkel Film

Fu Works

Cadenza Films

Living Stone

Tarantula

original-language

Dutch

budget

$4,700,000

revenue

-

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...

production-countries

Belgium

Luxembourg

Netherlands

spoken-languages

Dutch

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