The Lovers of Montparnasse
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1hr
48mins
Directed by
Jacques Becker,
Max Ophüls,
Starring
Gérard Philipe,
Lilli Palmer,
Lea Padovani,
Gérard Séty
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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.
