Gauguin: A Dangerous Life

Synopsis

Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who worked with the Impressionists and had a tempestuous relationship with Vincent van Gogh. But he was also a competitive and rapacious man who left his wife to bring up five children and used his colonial privilege to travel to Polynesia, where in his 40s he took ‘wives’ between 13 and 15 years old, creating images of them and their world that promoted a fantasy paradise of an unspoilt Eden in the Pacific. Later, he challenged the colonial authorities and the Catholic Church in defence of the indigenous people, dying in the Marquesas Islands in 1903, sick, impoverished and alone.

Main Cast

Dominic West

Voice of Paul Gauguin

Age : 54 | Popularity : 20%

Marcel Tai Gauguin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Mette Gauguin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Tai Shan Schierenberg

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Tyla Vaeau

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Kehinde Wiley

Age : 47 | Popularity : 3%

Paul Gauguin

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Executive Producer	Adam Low Martin Rosenbaum
Directing	Director	Patricia Wheatley
Department	Role	Name

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