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This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.
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"I really like when the come out with a film like this. I like costume dramas, but this one is so interesting because it was made based on a painting and it works with a very interesting subject of Protestantism in Flanders and tryouts of Spanish militia to eradicate it. Not a lot of the films was made about the subject, and it clearly shows desperation of the Spanish militia to eradicate, at that time, very strong Protestant movement in Flanders. How state of the affairs came to that? I would track it down to Pope Alexander VI Borgia and total corruption of the Curria of the late 1490s. It was..."
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In the movie, the two large paintings displayed behind Nicolaes Jonghelinck (Michael York) and his wife (Dorota Lis) in their house, are also works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, "The Tower of Babel" (1563) and "Hunters in the Snow" (1565). They were indeed commissioned or at any rate owned by Jonghelinck at the time.
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This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.