Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.

• DirectorAlbert Lewin
• Release27 October 1942
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 29m
• Budget$401,000
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  6.344
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• Productions

  David L. Loew Productions