''Ruben Brandt, Collector'' ( hu, Ruben Brandt, a gyűjtő) is a 2018 Hungarian animated

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film directed by . It is the first feature film of the Slovenian-born director, who previously won a

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at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1995. The film tells the story of a psychotherapist who enlists creative thieves to steal the paintings that are haunting his dreams.

Plot

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Cast

* Iván Kamarás as Ruben Brandt ** Liam Aaron Grant as Young Ruben Brandt * Csaba "Kor" Márton as Mike Kowalski *

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as Mimi * Matt Devere as Bye-Bye Joe * Henry Grant as Membrano Bruno and Renoir * Christian Nielson Buckholdt as Fernando * Katalin Dombi as Marina * Paul Bellantoni as John Cooper *

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as Kris Barutanski * Butch Engle as Vincenzo Delangello * Irén Bordán as Eva Kowalski * Scott Hoke as Professor Walden * Iván Hegedus as Boris * Péter Linka as George * Virginia Proud as Margaret *

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as Garreth Graham * Geoffrey Thomas as Gerhard Brandt * Ágens as Olympia *

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as Giuseppe (uncredited) *

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as Postman Joseph Roulin (uncredited) *

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as Double Elvis (uncredited)

Production

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Paintings depicted in the movie

The film depicts the following thirteen paintings that haunted Ruben Brandt: *

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– Portrait of Renoir (1867) * Sandro Botticelli – The Birth of Venus (c. 1486) *

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– Portrait of Antoine, Prince of Lorraine (c.1543) *

Frank Duveneck Frank Duveneck (né Decker; October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and portrait painter. Early life Duveneck was born in Covington, Kentucky, the son of German immigrant Bernhard Decker. Decker died in a cholera epidemic whe ...

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Whistling Boy (1872)
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Woman Holding A Fruit (1893)
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– Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin (1888) * Edward Hopper – Nighthawks (1942) * René Magritte –

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(1929) *

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– Olympia (1863) *

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Woman with book (1932)
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– Venus of Urbino (1538) *

Diego Velázquez Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptized June 6, 1599August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He was an individualistic artist of th ...

– Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress (1659) *

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Awards and accolades

In 2018, the film received

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nominations in two categories, Best Animated Independent Feature and Editorial in an Animated Feature Production. The film received awards at the following film festivals: * Bucharest International Animation Film Festival (Anim'est) (2018): Best Feature Film *

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(2018): Best Screenplay Award; Art Cinema Award * Trieste Film Festival (2019): Sky Arte Award * Anima - The Brussels Animation Film Festival (2019): BeTV Award for Best Animated Feature of the Official Selection * World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb (2019): Grand Prix, Feature Film

Reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has score based on reviews, with an average of . The site's critical consensus reads, "Ruben Brandt, Collector is flawed from a storytelling standpoint, but the eye-catching animation is more than enough to make this offbeat thriller well worth watching."

References

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