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- Hans Steinhoff
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Anti-semitic tendencies set aside, this film is a very strong told and tightly held drama with wonderful photography by Richard Angst. The chiascuro effects of the photograpy and the very good sets amount much to the overall feeling of watching dutch painting of the 17th century.

Steinhoff's management of the actors is brilliant, and Ewald Balser may be a better Rembrant than Charles Laughton.

10brogmiller

A giant amongst pygmies.

One wonders how director Hans Steinhoff, dismissed by Billy Wilder as 'a talentless idiot' could have turned out so many marvellous films! This is a stunning biopic of Rembrandt van Rijn whose uncompromising pursuit of his artistic vision makes him in the humble opinion of this reviewer, the greatest painter of them all. As one would expect from UFA studios the production values are exceptional courtesy of Richard Angst as cinematographer and Walter Roehrig as art director. There is a marvellous score by Alois Melichar which is used sparingly and to great effect. The performances are out of the top drawer. Hertha Feiler as Saskia, Gisela Uhlen as Hendrickje Stoffels and the fascinating Elisabeth Flickenschildt as Geertje Dierks. Rembrandt himself is portayed by the brilliant Ewald Balser who captures beautifully the artist's single-mindedness and humanity. The scene where he paints the seated Hendrickje(now in the National Gallery) whilst debtors strip his house bare, is unforgettable. The harsh realisation that Genius is seldom recognised in its own lifetime and that giants are very often dragged down by pygmies makes the final scene where he gazes upon his cruelly neglected masterpiece 'The Night Watch' even more telling. I would strongly recommend watching Ewald Balser as Beethoven in 'Eroica' of 1949. Another knockout performance.

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In the first movie scene a man said that Rembrandt died on the 8th October 1669. However this is the day when he was buried. Rembradt died on October the 4th 1669.

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Rembrandt: [about the painting "The Night Watch"] So you don't like the painting?
Leutnant Ruytenburgh: You want to make fun of us?
Banning Cocq: Rembrandt, explain to us: How could this happen?
Rembrandt: Explain? I am not an explainer. I am a painter.
Leutnant Ruytenburgh: But a miserable one.
Schütze: [to Ruytenburgh] You, be quiet!
Banning Cocq: No, Rembrandt, it is differently. We don't understand what you have painted.
Rembrandt: So you don't understand but you judge. Who gives you the right to judge if you don't understand?
Leutnant Ruytenburgh: Our money.
Rembrandt: Your money, your money. I was expecting this. Your money. So you sit on your money sacks and think that you can pay anything in life with it and you don't even know how poor you are how regretable you are.
Leutnant Ruytenburgh: You let him talk like this?
Rembrandt: Yes, you have to let me talk like this. You complain that you don't recognize yourself on the picture. You gave me the job to paint the Shooting Company of Amsterdam for future generations. That happened. I didn't care about the single one, I cared about the whole thing. But when they will stand in front of this picture in 100 years nobody will know anyone of you and no one will know how you looked like. But they will say "Those were men whom Amsterdam can be proud of". Be happy that you don't recognize yourself. Believe me, I could have painted you so close that you would be afraid of yourself. Look at youself in the mirror. See your fat bellies, your double-chin, your noses. No, no. I couldn't paint you the way you are in real life. In eternal times they will laugh at you. You forgot taht it supposed to be something special. I owned it to my conscience to paint the picture like that so it can be testimony ablegen for me as an artist. Not for your Bigotry. Do whatever you want with the picture. You Moneybags.