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Vincent van Gogh is often remembered almost entirely through the tragedy of his life: poverty, illness, the severed ear, and his death at 37. But his story was also one of the most moving and extraordinary, full of stories about love, persistence, brotherhood, friendships, and hope.

This documentary follows Van Gogh’s complete life through his letters, paintings, historical photographs, and the places where he lived and worked. Rather than presenting him only as the archetypal “tortured artist,” the film looks at Vincent as a complicated human being—his ambitions and failures, his relationship with his brother Theo, the people who supported him, and the remarkable effort that eventually preserved his work and transformed him into a cultural icon.