The Forgery

"The Forgery"

A 50 minutes documentary on false art and greed in the art world.


Art is big business as one can see in the documentary The Forgery. This film on international art fraud is constructed as a detective story.


German detective Scholler is in pursuit of Dutch art forger Jansen. Scholler retains 1502 false art works while catching Jansen in France. A third party in The Forgery is art collector Hans. He bought the painting ‘Three Tulips’ in an auction house. Apparently by Cobra painter Corneille. There is doubt on the ‘Three Tulips’. Hans starts a search for the truth. At the end he finds Corneille in Paris. The famous painter makes him understand that this work is a forgery. :’I hope you haven’t spend too much money on this…’



Script & Director: Arjanne Laan
Produced: NFI and NPS TV
Producer: Roel Simons

Camera: Mauricio Rubinstein

Sound: Fokke van Saane

Editing: Jan Dop

Music: Patricio Wang


Broadcasted:

NPS-Dutch Television;

Finish TV YLE;

Pay TV -Italy


Distribution:

Nos SalesMip Com

Docsonline
IDFA

Release: 2001