The Mill and the Cross
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Mill and the Cross canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10692669 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mill and the Cross Context triple: [Michael York, notableWork, The Mill and the Cross]
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A.
The Seventh Cross
The Seventh Cross is a 1944 American drama film about seven prisoners escaping a Nazi concentration camp, noted for its early and powerful depiction of anti-fascist resistance.
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B.
The Mill
"The Mill" is a dark, psychologically intense narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that explores themes of despair, miscommunication, and tragic misunderstanding within a miller’s family.
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C.
Coming from the Mill
Coming from the Mill is a famous industrial landscape painting by L. S. Lowry depicting crowds of workers leaving a factory in a stylized, northern English mill town scene.
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D.
The Proud Tower
The Proud Tower is a historical work by Barbara W. Tuchman that examines the political and social landscape of the Western world in the decades leading up to World War I.
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E.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mill and the Cross Target entity description: 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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A.
The Seventh Cross
The Seventh Cross is a 1944 American drama film about seven prisoners escaping a Nazi concentration camp, noted for its early and powerful depiction of anti-fascist resistance.
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B.
The Mill
"The Mill" is a dark, psychologically intense narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that explores themes of despair, miscommunication, and tragic misunderstanding within a miller’s family.
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C.
Coming from the Mill
Coming from the Mill is a famous industrial landscape painting by L. S. Lowry depicting crowds of workers leaving a factory in a stylized, northern English mill town scene.
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D.
The Proud Tower
The Proud Tower is a historical work by Barbara W. Tuchman that examines the political and social landscape of the Western world in the decades leading up to World War I.
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E.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
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 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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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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