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.
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
Pierre Richard
as un étudiant peintre (uncredited)
Yori Bertin
as Catherine - la serveuse du café
