Elckerlyc
This cinema version of a medieval morality play, ‘Den Spiegel der Salighijt van Elckerlijc’ (Everyman), was filmed in Het Gravensteen, a 13th century castle in the Belgian town of Ghent.
Holland 1345. Johanna loves Reinout, but her betrothal is forbidden by her brother John, because the two families belong to rival parties.
In this film, made to commemorate the centenary of the Dutch royal family, twenty scenes portraying highlights from Dutch history are shown, from the Eighty Years' War to King Willem I's return from exile in England (1813).
Cornelis van Baerle, like most men of fashion in seventeenth-century Holland, is a bulb enthusiast.