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The Duke: Directed by Roger Michell. With Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook, James Wilby. In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
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- Biography, Comedy, Crime
- Roger Michell
- 2022-02-25
The Duke (2020) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
Apr 3, 2022 · The Duke stars Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in a comedy about a crime that baffled a nation: the 1961 theft of a Goya painting from London’s National Gallery — by a 60-year-old pensioner.
- Luke Goodsell
Feb 24, 2022 · Jim Broadbent is priceless in this canny, tender British comedy, based on a real-life art heist that bamboozled the police, as well as the scriptwriters of Bond adventure Dr. No.
- Charlotte O'sullivan
Jul 26, 2022 · The Duke gives us something of a cinematic paradox as well. The film, starring Oscar winners Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, is gentle and funny and ever-so British. It might’ve felt like a grand fit on 1960s BBC itself—if not for all the needless profanity and an unnecessarily tawdry sex scene.
Oct 3, 2020 · Jim Broadbent excels as a genial, real-life outlaw in Roger Michell’s penultimate film, a swan song to be proud of. The release of this film having been delayed by Covid, it reaches us after the death of its director Roger Michell whose professionalism is everywhere apparent in it.
