Modigliani of Montparnasse
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jacques Becker
Gérard Philipe
Lilli Palmer
Anouk Aimée
Gérard Séty
Lila Kedrova
Film Details
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Synopsis
In Montparnasse young Amedeo Modigliani becomes embittered and dissolute over public indifference to his paintings. Though his wealthy mistress, English writer Beatrice Hastings, appreciates his genius, she encourages his life of drunkenness and debauchery rather than his work. One day, he meets Jeanne Hébuterne, a young art student with whom he falls in love, but after one night together, her outraged father takes her away from Paris. Modigliani's intensified drinking soon affects his lungs, and he is told by a doctor that he must go to southern France if he is to recover from tuberculosis. In Nice he again sees Jeanne, who returns to Paris with him and becomes his model and mistress. An exhibition of his paintings is arranged by his good friend and patron, Léopold Sborowski, but when it is generally ignored by the public, Modigliani again turns to alcohol. Other disappointments follow, and he is reduced to peddling sketches at sidewalk cafes. Eventually his weakened condition causes him to collapse on the street, and a few hours later he dies in a nearby hospital. Realizing that Jeanne is unaware of her lover's death, Morel, an unscrupulous art dealer, visits her and buys all of Modigliani's masterpieces.
Director
Jacques Becker
Cast
Gérard Philipe
Lilli Palmer
Anouk Aimée
Gérard Séty
Lila Kedrova
Léa Padovani
Jean Lanier
Denise Vernac
Lino Ventura
Marianne Oswald
Antoine Tudal
François Jone
Pâquerette
Daniel Mendaille
Harry Max
Arlette Poirier
Robert Ripa
Frank Edwards
Carol Sands
Judith Magre
Crew
Georges Annenkov
Johann Sebastian Bach
Maryse Barbut
Ralph Baum
Jean Becker
Sophie Becker
Maurice Bourbotte
Ernest Bourreaud
Pierre Calvet
Gilbert Chain
Robert Christides
Jean Cocteau
Christian Courmes
Maurice Dagonneau
Jean D' Eaubonne
Jacqueline Fauvel
Yvonne Fortuna
Jacques Gut
André Hoss
Henri Jeanson
Denise Lemoigne
Raymond Lemoigne
Christian Matras
Paul Misraki
Max Ophuls
Madeleine Rabusson
Marguerite Renoir
Henri Thibault
Georges Van Parys
Serge Witta
Film Details
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Location scenes filmed in Paris and Nice. Opened in Paris in April 1958 as Montparnasse 19; running time: 120 min; in Rome in September 1958 as Montparnasse; running time: 100 min. Sources conflict on music credit. The film is dedicated to Max Ophuls, who was the scheduled director before his death.
