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Hollywood warms up to the greatness of Vincent Van Gogh. He is not simply a dutchman. Van Gogh belongs to the entire world. His death at 37 years age makes him not only most romantic but mysterious painter world has ever seen.
He died in 1890 but his colors and paintings have not been matched before or after him for harmony and the thrill of art. His life shown in this movie is really based on thousands of hand paintings, commissioned by movie producers from hundreds of modern painters.
Sotheby in 1998 said that his landscape work was auctioned for 66 million dollars, highest ever for a landscape.
Film shows people that Vince portrayed on his canvas – provincial french farmers, doctors, country girls, barmaids that adore walls of great museums world over.
The story moves around the cause of his death: was it a suicide, was it accident or was it a murder? He died poor and some people say he was gone insane at the time of his death. Brother of Vincent sends the son of a postmaster to travel to Northern French village where Vincent diet. Young man tried to find out about suicidal genius of a legend.
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