Tulip Fever (2016)
Set in the Dutch Republic in the 17th-century, during tulip mania, Sophia, an orphan, is betrothed to the elderly Cornelis. In return for the generous dowry, her sisters are able to emigrate to New Amsterdam, where they have an aunt awaiting them. Three years later, Sophia is unhappy in the marriage, since Cornelis seems to be concerned only with conceiving an heir, to no avail thus far. Cornelis believes this misfortune to have something to do with a mistake he made in the past, with his previous wife: she miscarried their first child and when Cornelis asked the doctor to save the second child over the wife, he feels that God punished him by taking both his wife and his child away.
Cornelis decides to hire a painter, so that he could at least be remembered as having had a beautiful young wife, should he have no heir to continue his legacy. Sophia agrees, but as soon as the young painter Jan arrives to paint the couple, he and Sophia fall in love. Jan sends a note to Sophia, asking her to send him a vase with tulips. She shows up at his door with the tulips, and they consummate their love. Meanwhile, Sophia’s friend, the housemaid Maria, is in a courtship with the neighborhood fishmonger, Willem. Willem is speculating in the tulip market, and is doing quite well – expecting to be independently prosperous and able to marry Maria, he even sells his business to another fishmonger. One day, Sophia borrows Maria’s cloak and heads to a rendezvous with Jan.
Date of download: 2015-11-11T17:22:34+00:00
Cast:  Alicia VikanderSophia Sandvoort  Dane DeHaanJan van Loos  Christoph WaltzCornelis Sandvoort  Jack O'ConnellWillem Brok  Holliday GraingerMaria  Judi DenchAbbess  Zach GalifianakisGerrit  Matthew MorrisonMattheus  Cara DelevingneAnnetje  Tom HollanderDr Sorgh  Kevin McKiddJohan De Bye  Douglas HodgeNicholas Steen  Joanna ScanlanMrs Overvalt  David HarewoodMr Prater |
Set in the Dutch Republic in the 17th-century, during tulip mania, Sophia, an orphan, is betrothed to the elderly Cornelis. In return for the generous dowry, her sisters are able to emigrate to New Amsterdam, where they have an aunt awaiting them. Three years later, Sophia is unhappy in the marriage, since Cornelis seems to be concerned only with conceiving an heir, to no avail thus far. Cornelis believes this misfortune to have something to do with a mistake he made in the past, with his previous wife: she miscarried their first child and when Cornelis asked the doctor to save the second child over the wife, he feels that God punished him by taking both his wife and his child away.
Cornelis decides to hire a painter, so that he could at least be remembered as having had a beautiful young wife, should he have no heir to continue his legacy. Sophia agrees, but as soon as the young painter Jan arrives to paint the couple, he and Sophia fall in love. Jan sends a note to Sophia, asking her to send him a vase with tulips. She shows up at his door with the tulips, and they consummate their love. Meanwhile, Sophia’s friend, the housemaid Maria, is in a courtship with the neighborhood fishmonger, Willem. Willem is speculating in the tulip market, and is doing quite well – expecting to be independently prosperous and able to marry Maria, he even sells his business to another fishmonger. One day, Sophia borrows Maria’s cloak and heads to a rendezvous with Jan.
