Peter Greenaway

Director, Writer, Editor

Birthdate: Apr 5, 1942

Birthplace: Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK

Peter Greenaway trained as a painter and began working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information in 1965. Shortly afterwards he started to make his own films. He has produced a wealth of short and feature-length films, but also paintings, novels and other books. He has held several one-man shows and curated exhibitions at museums world-wide.

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Movies

Known For

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

(1989)

Nightwatching

(2007)

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

(2015)

Drowning by Numbers

(1988)

Peter Greenaway Movies

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2019 |
Tintoretto. A Rebel in Venice
2017 |
Jardins, Paradis des artistesas Peter Greenaway
2017 |
The Greenaway Alphabet
2016 |
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
2015 |
Der grausame Gott? Gewalt, Religion und Kunst
2013 |
3x3D
2013 |
European Graduate School: Digital Video Diary-August 2008
2012 |
Goltzius and The Pelican Company
2008 |
Chaos and Order
2008 |
Rembrandt's J'Accuse
2007 |
Nightwatching
2007 |
Phoenix - Fliegt
2005 |
A Life in Suitcases
2004 |
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
2004 |
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
2003 |
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003 |
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
1999 |
8 ½ Women
1995 |
The Pillow Book
1996 |
La cosmologia di Piazza del Popoloas Narrator
1994 |
Stairs 1 Genevaas Narrator
1993 |
The Baby of Mâcon
1991 |
Prospero's Books
1988 |
Drowning by Numbers
1989 |
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1987 |
The Belly of an Architect
1985 |
A Zed & Two Noughts
1982 |
The Draughtsman's Contract
1980 |
The Falls

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2015 |
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
2015
1h 45m
Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
6.3
The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around ... Read all