Les Amants de Montparnasse

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Les Amants de Montparnasse

Original film poster
Directed by Jacques Becker
Produced by Sandro Pallavicini
Written by Michel-Georges Michel
Starring Gérard Philipe
Lilli Palmer
Lino Ventura
Anouk Aimée
Music by Paul Misraki
Cinematography Christian Matras
Editing by Marguerite Renoir
Distributed by Franco London Films
Release date(s) April 4, 1958
Running time 108 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

Les Amants de Montparnasse, (The Lovers of Montparnasse), also known as Montparnasse 19, is a French/Italian film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani who worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. The film project was initiated by Max Ophüls who died before the script could be completed, so his name was credited as dedicatee.

The film poster, as seen here, billed the film as "Montparnasse 19", but it is credited as "Les Amants de Montparnasse (Montparnasse 19)".

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