What work , written by Augustina Bessa Luis , was inspired by " The Night Watch " ?
" The Night Watch " is the subject of a 2007 - film by director Peter Greenaway called " Nightwatching " , in which the film posits a conspiracy within the musketeer regiment of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch , and suggests that Rembrandt may have immortalized a conspiracy theory using subtle allegory in his group portrait of the regiment , subverting what was to have been a highly prestigious commission for both painter and subject .