He is a rebel in the early 1920s Amsterdam art scene. Han van Meegeren is a young artist who is talented. Because he paints in the style of his favorite artists, Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics think his work is old and call him a copycat. It was just to show off his point. To make it look real, he makes an imitation Vermeer and tries to pass it off as one that is real. Works. To make money, he doesn't tell the truth about his many fakes. As time goes on, he gets caught in a web of lies and deceit, and his life starts to go haywire. Then one day, a high-ranking Nazi named Hermann Göring comes to his door and asks for a Vermeer for his own private art collection...
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He is a rebel in the early 1920s Amsterdam art scene. Han van Meegeren is a young artist who is talented. Because he paints in the style of his favorite artists, Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics think his work is old and call him a copycat. It was just to show off his point. To make it look real, he makes an imitation Vermeer and tries to pass it off as one that is real. Works. To make money, he doesn't tell the truth about his many fakes. As time goes on, he gets caught in a web of lies and deceit, and his life starts to go haywire. Then one day, a high-ranking Nazi named Hermann Göring comes to his door and asks for a Vermeer for his own private art collection...
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