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Tijl Van Limburg (2010)

Name: Tijl Van Limburg
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-10-05T07:49:17+02:00
Rating: 3.33

Documentary | 60 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 60 minuten

Country: Belgium

Directed by: Stijn Meuris

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Tijl Van Limburg plot

On the night of September 23, 1971, 21-year-old Mario Roymans cuts the masterpiece The Love Letter by Johannes Vermeer from his frame in the Brussels Center for Fine Arts with a potato knife. Under the pseudonym Tijl Van Limburg, Roymans demands a ransom of 200 million francs for the artwork borrowed from the Netherlands. With this he wants to help the needy people of Bangladesh. Stijn Meuris made a documentary about Tijl Van Limburg.