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- The Duke is a 2020 British comedy drama film directed by Roger Michell, with a screenplay by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. It is based on the true story of the 1961 theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco de Goya.
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Apr 22, 2022 · April 22, 2022 11 AM PT. London — In 1961, a man snuck into London’s National Gallery and stole Francisco Goya’s painting of the Duke of Wellington. Kempton Bunton, a retired bus driver from...
Mar 3, 2022 · It is absolutely true that The Duke is based on a true story. The painting was stolen in 1961, less than three weeks after being acquired by the National Gallery. But there’s a shocking twist to the tale: the true culprit wasn’t Kempton – it was his son, John.
It is based on the true story of the 1961 theft of the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco de Goya. The film stars Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Anna Maxwell Martin and Matthew Goode. It was Michell's penultimate film before his death on 22 September 2021.
At first glance, the story told in new movie The Duke – which sees an elderly man steal a valuable painting of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London – might seem a little too...
Feb 25, 2022 · And now all these years later, Christopher Bunton is finally revealing the full story about what actually happened - the inspiration for director Roger Michell's final film, The Duke, starring...
Feb 25, 2022 · The movie is based on the incredible and unlikely true story of the theft of a portrait of the Duke of Wellington, painted by Francisco Goya in 1812. But as with many films and shows based on...
Feb 24, 2022 · There’s a moving true story behind the film, and it all revolves around an art robbery, and one man’s mission to change the world. In 1961, 60-year-old Geordie taxi driver and script writer Kempton Bunton, played by Jim Broadbent, was furious at the treatment of elderly citizens, and decided to take matters into his own hands.
