Goltzius and the Pelican Company is a 2012 historical drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway and starring Ramsey Nasr, F. Murray Abraham and Giulio Berruti.
[8][9][10] The film is based on the life of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints.
Erotic tales of the temptation of Adam and Eve, Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Joseph and Potiphar's wife, Samson and Delilah, and John the Baptist and Salome.
To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatizations of these erotic stories for his court.
[16] Greenaway won the FICE Award for Best European Director at the FICE- Federazione Italiana Cinema d’Essai in 2014.