Rubens (film)

Last updated September 25, 2025

Rubens
DVD cover
Directed by	Roland Verhavert
Written by	Hugo Claus
Produced by	Jörg A. Eggers
Starring	Johan Leysen
Cinematography	Walter Kindler
Release date	2 October 1977 (1977-10-02)
Running time	260 minutes
Country	Belgium
Language	Dutch

Rubens: Painter and Diplomat^[1] (Dutch : Rubens, schilder en diplomaat) is a 1977 Belgian drama film directed by Roland Verhavert.^[2] The film was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[3]

Cast
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Cast

Eddy Asselbergs as Olivares
Robert Borremans as Velasquez
Eddie Brugman as Peter Pourbus
Domien De Gruyter as Nicolaas II Rockox
Johan Leysen as Rubens
Ann Petersen as Marie de Medicis
Hugo Van Den Berghe as Adriaen Brouwer
Frans Van den Brande as Hertog van Lerma
Joris Van den Eynde as Filips
André van den Heuvel as Caravaggio
Martin Van Zundert as Richelieu
Lucas Vandervost as Jacob Jordaens

References

↑ Bonne 2021, p. 219.
↑ "Rubens". citwf. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
↑ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Bibliography

Bonne, Griet (31 December 2021). "10. Moved by Rubens: The Double Logic of Image Perception in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1877–1977)". In Moskatova, Olga (ed.). Images on the Move. transcript Verlag. pp. 209–230. doi:10.1515/9783839452462-010. ISBN 978-3-8394-5246-2 . Retrieved 24 September 2025.

External links

Rubens at IMDb

v t e Peter Paul Rubens
Paintings and drawings	The Descent from the Cross (Siegen; 1600–1602) Leda and the Swan (1601, 1602) The Deposition (1602) Self-Portrait in a Circle of Friends from Mantua (1602–1605) Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Lerma (1603) Portrait of a Young Woman (1603) Hercules and Omphale (1603) Heraclitus and Democritus (1603) Virgin and Child (c. 1604) The Fall of Phaeton (c. 1604/1605) The Baptism of Christ (1604–1605) The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity (1604–1605) Transfiguration (1604–1605) The Circumcision (1605) Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria (1606) Portrait of Maria di Antonio Serra (1606) Portrait of a Noblewoman with an Attendant (1606) Portrait of Giovanni Carlo Doria on Horseback (1606) Saint Gregory with Saints (1606-07) Madonna della Vallicella (1606–1608) Susanna and the Elders (1607) The Head of Saint John the Baptist Presented to Salome (c. 1609) Adoration of the Magi (Madrid; 1609 and 1628–29) Samson and Delilah (1609–1610) Honeysuckle Bower (1609–1610) Coronation of the Virgin (1609–1611) Juno and Argus (1610) Raising of the Cross (1610–1611) Conversion of Saint Paul (London; 1610–1612) Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1611) Venus Frigida (1611) Prometheus Bound (1611–1612) The Four Philosophers (1611–1612) Antwerp Resurrection (1611–1612) Visitation (c. 1611–1615) Roman Charity (1612) Ecce Homo (1612) Descent from the Cross (Antwerp; 1612–1614) Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit (Rotterdam; 1612–1614) Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit (Cambridge; c. 1614) The Tribute Money (1612–1614) The Defeat of Sennacherib (1612–1614) The Four Continents (1610s) Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter (1612–1614) Portrait of a Commander (1613) The Crowning of the Virtuous Hero (1613–1614) The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (1613–1615) The Death of Adonis (1614) Venus and Adonis (1614) Saint Sebastian (c. 1614) The Virgin Mary and Saint Francis Saving the World from Christ's Anger (c. 1614) Madonna della Cesta (1615) Ixion, King of the Lapiths, Deceived by Juno, Who He Wished to Seduce (1615) Daniel in the Lions' Den (1615) Bacchanalia (c. 1615) A Statue of Ceres (c. 1615) The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt (1615–1616) The Tiger Hunt (1615–1616) Theodosius and Saint Ambrose (1615–1616) The Wild Boar Hunt (1615–1617) Florence Resurrection (1616) The Virgin and Child Surrounded by the Holy Innocents (1616) Erichthonius Discovered by the Daughters of Cecrops (c. 1616) The Wolf and Fox Hunt (c. 1616) The Lion and Leopard Hunt (c. 1616) Romulus and Remus (1615–1616) Miracles of St. Francis Xavier (1616–1617) Saint Stephen Triptych (1616–1617) Two Women with a Candle (1616–1617) Descent from the Cross (Lille; 1616–1617) The Meeting Between Abraham and Melchizedek (1616–1617) Christ and the Penitent Sinners (1617) Mars and Rhea Silvia (1617) The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (1617) The Great Last Judgement (1617) A Bearded Man (c. 1617–18) Adoration of the Magi (Lyon; 1617–1618) The Five Senses (1617–1618) Two Satyrs (1618) Medusa (1618) The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (c. 1618) Christ Triumphant over Sin and Death (c. 1618) The Prodigal Son (1618) The Union of Earth and Water (c. 1618) Tigress with Her Cubs (attributed; 1618) Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna (c. 1618–1620) Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee (1618–1620) The Wild Boar Hunt (1618–1620) St Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy (1619–1620) The Small Last Judgement (1619) Conversion of Saint Paul (1620s) The Fall of the Damned (c. 1620) Landscape with Philemon and Baucis (c. 1620) Portrait of a Young Man in Armor (c. 1620) Saint George and the Dragon (c. 1620) Perseus Freeing Andromeda (1620) Saints Dominic and Francis Saving the World from Christ's Anger (1620) The Rape of Orithyia by Boreas (1620) Christ on the Cross (1620) The Three Graces (Florence; 1620–1623) Isabella Brant (c. 1621) The Lion Hunt (1621) Marie de' Medici cycle (1621–1630) Portrait of Susanna Lunden (1622) Perseus and Andromeda (c. 1622) The History of Constantine (1622–1625) Self-Portrait (1623) The Conversion of Saint Bavo (1623–1624) Diana and Her Nymphs Leaving for the Hunt (1623–1624) Adoration of the Magi (Antwerp; 1624) The Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob (1624) Christ Appointing Saint Roch as Patron Saint of Plague Victims (1623–1626) Portrait of Infante Isabella Clara Eugenia (1625) Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (c. 1625) Assumption of the Virgin (Antwerp; 1625–1626) Angelica and the Hermit (c. 1626–1628) Henry IV at the Battle of Ivry (1627) The Triumphal Entry of Henry IV into Paris (1627) The Annunciation (1627–1628) The Fall of Man (1628–1629) The Rape of Europa (1628–1629) Henry IV Seizing the Opportunity to Conclude Peace (c.1628) Minerva Protecting Peace from Mars (1629–1630) Cimon and Pero (1630) Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (c. 1630) Achilles Defeating Hector (c.1630) Thetis Receiving the Arms of Achilles from Vulcan (c.1630) The Crowning of Saint Catherine (1631) The Ildefonso Altarpiece (1630–1631) Last Supper (1630–1631) Odysseus on the Island of the Phaecians (1630–1635) The Finding of Erichthonius (1632–1634) The Rainbow Landscape (Saint Petersburg; 1632–1635) The Garden of Love (c. 1633) Adoration of the Magi (Cambridge; 1634) Bathsheba at the Fountain (c. 1635) The Dance of the Villagers (1635) Helena Fourment with Her Son Frans (1635) Venus and Adonis (New York; 1635) The Triumph of the Church (1635) The Feast of Venus (1635–1636) Deucalion and Pyrrha (1636–1637) The Feast of Herod (1635–1638) The Village Fête (1635–1638) Mercury and Argus (1635–1638) Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye (c. 1636) Helena Fourment with Children (1636) A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning (1636) Saturn (1636) The Rainbow Landscape (London; 1636) Pallas and Arachne (1636–1637) Het Pelsken (1636–1638) Assumption of the Virgin (Vienna; c. 1637) The Birth of the Milky Way (c. 1637) Consequences of War (c. 1638) Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides / Deianira Listens to Fame (1638) The Three Graces (Madrid; 1636–1638) The Rape of Ganymede (1636–1638) Diana and Callisto (1637–1638) Helena Fourment with a Carriage (1638) Self-Portrait (Vienna; 1638–1639) Bacchus (1638–1640) The Rape of the Sabine Women (1639–1640) The Peasants Returning From The Fields (1640) The Rainbow Landscape (Munich; 1640) Judgment of Paris (various)
Tapestries	The History of Constantine (1622–1640) (with Pietro da Cortona)
Books	Palazzi di Genova (1622)
Museums	Rubenshuis
People	Rubens family Isabella Brant (first wife) Helena Fourment (second wife) Nicolaas Rubens, Lord of Rameyen (son) Albert Rubens (son) Jan Rubens (father) Maria Pypelinckx (mother) Philip Rubens (brother) Tobias Verhaecht (teacher) Adam van Noort (teacher) Otto van Veen (teacher) Nicolaas Rockox (friend)
Related	Poussinists and Rubenists Rubens (1977 film) Rubenesque Rubens' Europe (exhibition)

v t e Belgian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
1960s	Le Départ (1967) Palaver (1969)
1970s	Peace in the Fields (1970) The Lonely Killers (1972) The Conscript (1974) High Street (1976) Rubens (1977) Woman Between Wolf and Dog (1979)
1980s	Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven (1981) Minuet (1982) Dust (1985) Jumping (1986) The Cruel Embrace (1987) The Music Teacher (1988) The Sacrament (1989)
1990s	Toto the Hero (1991) Daens (1992) Just Friends (1993) Farinelli (1994) Manneken Pis (1995) The Eighth Day (1996) Ma vie en rose (1997) Rosie (1998) Rosetta (1999)
2000s	Everybody's Famous! (2000) Pauline and Paulette (2001) The Son (2002) Sea of Silence (2003) The Alzheimer Case (2004) L'Enfant (2005) Someone Else's Happiness (2006) Ben X (2007) Eldorado (2008) The Misfortunates (2009)
2010s	Illegal (2010) Bullhead (2011) Our Children (2012) The Broken Circle Breakdown (2013) Two Days, One Night (2014) The Brand New Testament (2015) The Ardennes (2016) Racer and the Jailbird (2017) Girl (2018) Our Mothers (2019)
2020s	Working Girls (2020) Playground (2021) Close (2022) Omen (2023) Julie Keeps Quiet (2024) Young Mothers (2025)

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Rubens (film)

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Cast

See also

References

Bibliography

External links