The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his art.
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The people behind it
Oliver Reed
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Judith Paris
Elizabeth Siddal
Andrew Faulds
William Morris
Iza Teller
Christina Rossetti
Christopher Logue
Algernon Swinburne
Pat Ashton
Fanny Cornforth
Izabella Telezynska
Gala Mitchell
Jane Morris
Clive Goodwin
Ruskin
Norman Dewhurst
Burne-Jones
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Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
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Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
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