Van Gogh (1948)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Van Gogh |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 20 minutes |
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| Director | Alain Resnais |
| script |
Gaston Diehl , Robert Hessens |
| production | Gaston Diehl, Robert Hessens, Pierre Braunberger |
| music | Jacques Besse |
| camera | Henry Ferrand |
| cut | Alain Resnais |
| occupation | |
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Van Gogh is a French documentary short film by Alain Resnais about the life and work of Vincent van Gogh from 1948.
action
Vincent van Gogh's life is told based on his paintings: He grew up in a rural area in the south of the Netherlands . As can be seen in his early works, he is mainly influenced by the nature there and the simple life of the farmers.
One day he moved to Paris , where he met the painters Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin, among others . His painting begins to mature, but it goes hand in hand with increasing loneliness.
Then he is drawn to the countryside again, where he looks for the sun and the cheerful colors of the south. In Provence , he created numerous landscapes and made new contacts. He paints neighbors and friends in his place of residence.
Painting becomes an obsession for him, which eventually culminates in the fact that he cuts off part of his ear. He later retired to Auvers-sur-Oise , where he painted his last pictures and shot himself in the chest.
background
The short film, shot in black and white, was conceived as one of the first documentary “films about art” by director Alain Resnais in 1947 with the assistance of Gaston Diehl and Robert Hessens . It was cut only with photos of Van Gogh's paintings, but only premiered in 1948. In 1955 Van Gogh was re-released together with Resnais' art films Guernica and Toulouse-Lautrec under the title Three Painters - Three Worlds .
criticism
According to the lexicon of international films , the "expressiveness of these painter portraits [...] is still enhanced by effective music backdrops and linguistically brilliant accompanying texts". Director Resnais deals “in his reflections with the inevitability of memory and its significance for the present, which later shaped his masterful documentary Night and Fog in particular ”.
Awards
At the Academy Awards in 1950 , the film was awarded the Oscar in the Best Short Film category.
Web links
- Van Gogh in the Internet Movie Database (English)