Film Season 2022/23

The Duke (United Kingdom, 2020, 96 min., Slovenian subtitles)

In 1961, 60-year-old Kempton Bunton stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. An uplifting true story about a good man who set out to change the world and managed to save his marriage.

Director: Roger Michell
Screeplay: Richard Bean, Clive Coleman
Cinematography: Mike Eley
Music: George Fenton
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Goode, Jack Bandeira, Aimee Kelly, Charlotte Spencer
Festivals, Awards: Benetke (world premiere); Telluride; Liffe
Distribution: FIVIA – Vojnik