The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)
Romance · Drama · History
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.
Cast
- Gérard Philipe as Amedeo Modigliani
- Lilli Palmer as Béatrice Hastings
- Lea Padovani as Rosalie
- Gérard Séty as Léopold Sborowsky
- Lino Ventura as Morel
- Anouk Aimée as Jeanne Hébuterne
- Lila Kedrova as Anna Zborowsky
- Arlette Poirier as Lulu
- Madame Pâquerette as Madame Salomon - la Concierge
- Marianne Oswald as Berthe Weill