Montparnasse 19

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Movie
German title Montparnasse 19
Original title Les amants de Montparnasse
Country of production France , Italy
original language French
Publishing year 1958
length 108 (German version 100) minutes
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Director Jacques Becker
script Michel-Georges Michel
production Sandro Pallavicini
music Paul Misraki
camera Christian Matras
cut Marguerite Renoir
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Montparnasse 19 is a Franco-Italian biography by director Jacques Becker from 1958. The film describes the last year of life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani in the Parisian artists' quarter of Montparnasse .

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Amedeo Modigliani lives in the Montparnasse district of Paris and spends a lot of time having fun with the attractive writer Beatrice Hastings . He draws and paints, but cannot make a living from his art. He meets the young art student Jeanne Hébuterne , who is imprisoned by her family to keep her away from Modigliani. His friends, the Zborowskis, do their best to keep him afloat, but his troubled health, weakened by constant alcohol and tobacco, gives way and he is sent to Nice to recover. Jeanne escapes and joins him there, whereupon the two are inseparable.

On their return to Paris, the Zborowskis arranged a solo exhibition in Berthe Weill's renowned gallery , at which everyone appeared at the opening, but nobody bought anything. After complaints, the police order the removal of a file from the window. A cynical trader named Morel explains that Modigliani is sure to die soon and that then people will pay for his works. The Zborowskis find an American millionaire who really cares about some of Modiglisani's canvases (which later become world famous), but when he says he would then use Jeanne's blue eyes to promote his products, Modigliani goes out in disgust.

Desperate about his inability to combine the pursuit of beauty in his paintings of Beatrice and Jeanne with any commercial reality, and with his increasingly frail health, he walks through cafes trying unsuccessfully to sell his drawings. He collapses on the street and is taken to the hospital, where he dies alone. Without telling her what happened, Morel rushes to a delighted Jeanne to buy up all unsold works for instant money.

publication

Montparnasse 19 premiered in France on April 4, 1958. In the same year it was shown in German cinemas, and on August 5, 1960 it was shown in GDR cinemas.

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