Goltzius & the Pelican Company

Where to watch

Free with ads

Fawesome

Rent or buy

Apple TV Store

US availability from JustWatch · All options on TMDB

Open Goltzius & the Pelican Company in ReelRoll

Goltzius & the Pelican Company is a 2012 comedy and history movie directed by Peter Greenaway. It stars F. Murray Abraham, Ramsey Nasr and Kate Moran. It runs 2h 8m and is rated NR.

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.