The Lovers of Montparnasse
RomanceDramaHistorydepressionbased on novel or bookartistpainterbiographymontparnassepovertyalcoholicart dealerdrunkenness
A melancholic biographical portrait of Modigliani's final year, centered on a doomed romance amid poverty and artistic struggle in 1920s Paris.
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.
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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
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