Miniaturist, The

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First Look - TV Pilots Competition

Cinematographer: Gavin Finney

Director: Guillem Morales

Producer: Gethin Scourfield

Writer: John Brownlow

Production designer: Taff Batley, David Roger

Editor: John Wilson

Cast: Romola Garai, Alex Hassell, Anya Taylor-Joy

Production Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), The Forge Entertainment

Distribution company (world): All 3 Media

Distribution company: Platforma nc+

Year: 2017

Country: UK

Time: 52

In the 16th century, the Netherlands was a place of social, religious and political upheaval that made resourceful people rich and the less industrious fall from grace. Petronella is a young woman who agrees to marry a wealthy merchant to pay off the family debt. Little does she know that this decision will affect all the people around her. The problems begin when she travels to Amsterdam to live in her husband’s impressive house only to find that she will be sharing it with the man’s enigmatic sister. In addition, as a wedding gift, Petronella receives a doll’s house designed as a miniature of the very house she lives in, fully furnished, together with replicas of the members of the household. It also appears that the gift has some rather unsettling characteristics, well beyond what may be considered rational, and it becomes a symbolic representation of the many mysteries surrounding Petronella’s new life. The girl devotes herself to better understanding this distressing and exciting world she has entered.

First Look - TV Pilots Competition