Anthony Higgins
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The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British period comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary The Falls).
Nov 12, 1982 · A young artist is hired to draw a wealthy landowner's estate, but soon becomes involved in a web of deception and murder. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this 1982 British film.
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- Comedy, Drama, Mystery
- Peter Greenaway
- 1982-11-12
Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway's witty, stylized, erotic country house murder mystery catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema in 1982.
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- Peter Greenaway
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- Anthony Higgins
A 1982 British film by Peter Greenaway about a young artist and a wealthy landowner's wife. The film is a historical mystery comedy with a landscape of lust and cunning.
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A 17th-century puzzle film by Peter Greenaway, featuring a draughtsman who draws a country estate and uncovers its secrets. The film explores themes of property, primogeniture and Protestantism, with a score by Michael Nyman.
An aristocratic wife commissions a draughtsman to sketch her husband’s property while he is away—in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the drawings. As the draughtsman becomes entrenched in the devious schemings, details emerge in his art that may reveal a murder.
