United Kingdom
1936
85 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
English
Charles Laughton once again teams up with Korda for this moving, elegantly shot biopic about the Dutch painter. Beginning when Rembrandt’s reputation was at its height, the film then tracks his quiet descent into loneliness and isolated self-expression, following the death of his wife to the unveiling of Night Watch to the ecclesiastical excommunication of his late-in-life lover and maid, Hendrickje Stoffels (played by Laughton’s wife, Elsa Lanchester). Though black and white, Rembrandt is shot by cinematographer Georges Périnal (Le million, The Fallen Idol) with an attention to light that’s particularly Rembrandtesque.
| Rembrandt | Charles Laughton |
| Geertje | Gertrude Lawrence |
| Hendrickje | Elsa Lanchester |
| Fabrizius | Edward Chapman |
| Banning Cocq | Walter Hudd |
| Beggar Saul | Roger Livesey |
| Rembrandt's father | Herbert Lomas |
| Director | Alexander Korda |
| From the play by | Carl Zuckmayer |
| Scenario by | June Head |
| Cinematography | Georges Perinal |
| Editing | Francis Lyon |
| Settings designed by | Vincent Korda |
| Musical direction | Muir Matheson |
| Musical score by | Geoffrey Toye |
| Costumes | John Armstrong |
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