The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip — Plot

The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100,000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. Only the city's oldest citizens remember the Tulip Mania thirty years prior, and the citizens throw themselves into the competition. The young and bourgeois Cornelius van Baerle has almost succeeded but is suddenly thrown into the Loevestein prison. There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and eventually become his rescuer.

• Release date
• September 13, 1970
• Runtime
• 180 min
• TMDB score
• 5.7

The Black Tulip — Cast

Simon Ward Cornelius Van Bearle Tessa Wyatt Rosa John Cater Dirk

W

Wolfe Morris Isaac Boxtel John Stratton Gryphus

L

Leon Eagles Colonel Van Deken