Utz details

Movie Details:

  • Director: George Sluizer
  • Produced By: Viva Films, Academy Pictures, BBC, Castle Hill Productions, Norddeutscher Rundfunk
  • Year: 1992
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Country: Germany, Italy, UK
  • Language: English
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Adventure
  • Filmed In: Color



Utz

Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.



Keywords:

  • aristocracy
  • collection
  • Communism
  • robbery
  • investigation
  • obsession
  • politician
  • porcelain
  • wealth
  • marriage-of-convenience


Themes:

  • Treasure Hunts
  • Americans Abroad
  • Obsessive Quests
  • Art Theft