Movielogr
Rubens, schilder en diplomaat (1977)
Directed by Roland Verhavert
Overview
This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence (‘Rubenshuis’ in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment.
Length 260 minutes
Actors
Serge Adriaensen | Eddy Asselbergs | Tine Balder | Marc Bober | Robert Borremans | Eddie Brugman | Dirk Buyse | Domien De Gruyter | Robbe De Hert | Ingrid De Vos | Jo De Caluwé | Bernadette Degelin | Herbert Flack | Marja Koppejan | Ludo Leroy | Johan Leysen | Jan Pauwels | Ann Petersen | Ward de Ravet | Jerome Reehuis | Raf Reymen | Senne Rouffaer | Marc Simons | Eddy Spruyt | Peter Strynckx | Serge-Henri Valcke | Hugo Van Den Berghe | Frans Van den Brande | Nele van den Driessche | Joris Van Den Eynde | André van den Heuvel | Dora van der Groen | Bob Van der Veken | Alex Van Rooyen | Henk van Ulsen | Rudi Van Vlaenderen | Cara Van Wersch | Martin Van Zundert | Johan Vanderbracht | Gaston Vandermeulen | Lucas Vandervost | Ray Verhaeghe | Johny Voners | Ronny Waterschoot