Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.
Acting
Gérard Philipe's final performance—hauntingly beautiful as the crumbling Modigliani
Production
Recreated Montparnasse studios so authentic you can smell the turpentine
Cinematography
Shadows that chiaroscuro would kill for
Director
Jacques Becker
Gérard Philipe
Amedeo Modigliani
Lilli Palmer
Béatrice Hastings
Lea Padovani
Rosalie
Gérard Séty
Léopold Sborowsky
Lino Ventura
Morel
Anouk Aimée
Jeanne Hébuterne
Lila Kedrova
Anna Zborowsky
Arlette Poirier
Lulu
Madame Pâquerette
Madame Salomon - la Concierge
Marianne Oswald
Berthe Weill
Pierre Richard
un étudiant peintre (uncredited)
Yori Bertin
Catherine - la serveuse du café
Judith Magre
La Prostituée Devant le Café
Denise Vernac
Madame Hébuterne
Robert Ripa
Marcel - le Maquereau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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