Lust for life [videorecording - DVD] / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: [United Kingdom :] Warner Home Video : Turner Entertainment, 2006Description: 1 videodisc (117 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Production credits:
  • Produced by John Houseman; Directed by Vincente Minnelli; Screenplay by Norman Corwin
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett SloaneScope and content: Many of Vincent van Gogh's original canvases are used in presenting an account of the torturous life and career of the Dutch painter, portraying his experiences as an evangelist in Belgium, his love affair with a Parisian prostitute, his temestuous residence with the psychopathic Gaugin in southern France, his voluntary confinement in a mental institution, and his suicide prior to the world's acclamation of his art. Filmed in the towns and countrysides in Holland and France where Vincent van Gogh lived and painted
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48 Hour Media 48 Hour Media ATU Wellpark Road Audio Visual 791.4372 MIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available G115369

Based on the novel Lust for life, by Irving Stone

Produced by John Houseman; Directed by Vincente Minnelli; Screenplay by Norman Corwin

Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane

Many of Vincent van Gogh's original canvases are used in presenting an account of the torturous life and career of the Dutch painter, portraying his experiences as an evangelist in Belgium, his love affair with a Parisian prostitute, his temestuous residence with the psychopathic Gaugin in southern France, his voluntary confinement in a mental institution, and his suicide prior to the world's acclamation of his art. Filmed in the towns and countrysides in Holland and France where Vincent van Gogh lived and painted

Originally released 1956

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