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Released
2007 · FILM

Nightwatching

Murder, Conspiracy and the Masterpiece that Revealed the Truth

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Written by
Runtime
135 min
BiographyDramaHistory

Synopsis

This lavish and evocative portrayal explores Rembrandt's personal and professional life, focusing on the controversy that arose when he was accused of identifying a murderer within the composition of his painting *The Night Watch*.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Karen PorterShot by Reinier Van BrummelenScored by Wlodzimierz PawlikDesigned by Maarten Piersma

Also known as

  • Die Nachtwachede
  • Nightwatching – Das Rembrandt-Komplottde
  • La Ronde de nuitfr

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