The Draughtsman’s Contract

Year: 1982

Runtime: 108 mins

Language: English

Director: Peter Greenaway

MysteryHistoryDramaThrillers and murder mysteriesErotic relationships and desire

A landscape of lust and cunning. A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

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