The Lovers of Montparnasse

Overview

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.

Directed by Jacques Becker

Top cast

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

Jean Lanier

Monsieur Hébuterne

C

Carole Sands

Madame Dickson

Jany Clair

La Bonne

A

Antoine Tudal

Cendrars

Bruno Balp

Le Boucher Modèle

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