The Mill and the Cross

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film

The Mill and the Cross is a 2011 art film directed by Lech Majewski that visually reconstructs Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting “The Procession to Calvary,” blending historical drama with meditative, painterly imagery.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
The Mill and the Cross canonical	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film ⓘ
basedOn	The Procession to Calvary NERFINISHED ⓘ
basedOnWorkBy	Pieter Bruegel the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ
cinematographyBy	Adam Sikora NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	France ⓘ Poland ⓘ Sweden ⓘ USA NERFINISHED ⓘ
depicts	Spanish occupation of Flanders ⓘ religious persecution ⓘ
director	Lech Majewski NERFINISHED ⓘ
distributor	Kino Lorber NERFINISHED ⓘ
editedBy	Lech Majewski NERFINISHED ⓘ
featuresCharacter	Bruegel as a character ⓘ Christ carrying the cross NERFINISHED ⓘ miller on a towering rock ⓘ
genre	art film ⓘ drama film ⓘ historical drama film ⓘ
hasTheme	intersection of art and history ⓘ role of the artist ⓘ suffering and redemption ⓘ
inspiredBy	The Procession to Calvary NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
medium	live action with digital compositing ⓘ
musicBy	Józef Skrzek NERFINISHED ⓘ Lech Majewski NERFINISHED ⓘ
narrativeForm	meditative ⓘ
portrays	Pieter Bruegel the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ scenes from 16th-century Flanders ⓘ
posterCaption	The Mill and the Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ
premieredAt	Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ
productionCompany	Bruegel Film Production NERFINISHED ⓘ
releaseYear	2011 ⓘ
runningTimeMinutes	92 ⓘ
screenplayBy	Lech Majewski NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Francis Gibson NERFINISHED ⓘ
settingPlace	Flanders NERFINISHED ⓘ
settingTime	16th century ⓘ
starring	Charlotte Rampling NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael York NERFINISHED ⓘ Rutger Hauer NERFINISHED ⓘ
title	The Mill and the Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ
visualStyle	painterly imagery ⓘ tableau-like compositions ⓘ

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: The Mill and the Cross
Description of subject: The Mill and the Cross is a 2011 art film directed by Lech Majewski that visually reconstructs Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting “The Procession to Calvary,” blending historical drama with meditative, painterly imagery.

Referenced by (1)

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Michael York → notableWork → The Mill and the Cross ⓘ