Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Name: Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Director: Andrew Hutton
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: 2010-04-05
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jamie Parker, Aidan McArdle, Christopher Good, Rowena Cooper

2010

1h 20m

Drama Documentary

Director: Andrew Hutton

Writers: Vincent van Gogh, Theo van Gogh

Overview

A drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van Gogh sent to his younger brother Theo, and of those around him. What emerges is a complex portrait of a sophisticated, civilised and yet tormented man.