Theo van Gogh
Dutch film director
Died when: 47 years 102 days (567 months)Star Sign: Leo
Theodoor van Gogh (Dutch: ['te?jo? v?? '??x]; 23 July 1957 – 2 November 2004) was a Dutch film director.He directed Submission: Part 1, a short film written by Somali writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which criticised the treatment of women in Islam in strong terms.
On 2 November 2004, he was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan Islamist who objected to the film's message.The last film Van Gogh had completed before his murder, 06/05, was a fictional exploration of the assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn (1948–2002).
It was released posthumously in December 2004, a month after Van Gogh's death, and two years after Fortuyn's death.
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