The Mill and the Cross [SEP] film editor
The Mill and the Cross
The Mill and the Cross () is a 2011 drama film directed by Lech Majewski and starring Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York. It is inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1564 painting "The Procession to Calvary", and based on Michael Francis Gibson's book "The Mill and the Cross". The film was a Polish-Swedish co-production. Filming on the project wrapped in August 2009. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 23, 2011.
of whom is shown here in the detail) - are separated from the main events by being placed on a small, rocky plateau. They act out their own, apparently independent, drama, largely unnoticed by the figures behind them. Larger than the background figures and isolated from them, are the Virgin and her companions.
Film treatment.
Michael Francis Gibson wrote an art-historical book entitled "The Mill and the Cross," which served as the basis for the 2011 film "The Mill and the Cross