The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

Strange DREAMS - He had ideas he never told her about...He didn't dare!

1942 · 89 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama

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.

Directed by Albert Lewin · Written by Albert Lewin

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