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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (Italian pronunciation: [ameˈdɛo modiʎˈʎani]; July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork and addiction to alcohol and narcotics.
Modigliani was born into a Jewish family in Livorno, Italy. A port city, Livorno had long served as a refuge for those persecuted for their religion, and was home to a large Jewish community. His maternal great-great-grandfather, Solomon Garsin, had immigrated to Livorno in the 18th century as a refugee.
Modigliani's mother (Eugénie Garsin) who was born and grew up in Marseille, was descended from an intellectual, scholarly family of Sephardic Jews, generations of whom had resided along the Mediterranean coastline. Her ancestors were learned people, fluent in many languages, known authorities on sacred Jewish texts and founders of a school of Talmudic studies. Family legend traced the Garsin's lineage to the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. The family business was believed to be a credit agency with branches in Livorno, Marseille, Tunis, and London. Their financial fortunes ebbed and flowed. At times they enjoyed affluence, at other times they were subject to dire financial crises and reduced circumstances.
Actors: Andrei Boncea (producer), Andy Garcia (producer), Hippolyte Girardot (actor), Andrei Boncea (actor), Miriam Margolyes (actress), Elsa Zylberstein (actress), Udo Kier (actor), Omid Djalili (actor), Peter Capaldi (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Jim Carter (actor), Ernest Maftei (actor), Andy Garcia (actor), Cheryl Leigh (miscellaneous crew), Guy Farley (composer),
Plot: Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, modigliani, montparnasse, one-word-titleActors: Pino Quartullo (actor), Trudie Styler (actress), David Brandon (actor), Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (actor), Maria Fiore (actress), Angela Goodwin (actress), Richard Berry (actor), Vanni Corbellini (actor), Jessica Forde (actress), Romuald Andrzej Klos (actor), Laurent Grévill (actor), André Djaoui (producer), Marco Di Stefano (actor), Maria Carmela Cicinnati (writer), Elide Melli (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Harry-Max (actor), Lino Ventura (actor), Pierre Richard (actor), Gérard Philipe (actor), René Berthier (actor), Émile Genevois (actor), Bruno Balp (actor), François Joux (actor), Jean Lanier (actor), François Perrot (actor), Julien Maffre (actor), Jacques Marin (actor), Daniel Mendaille (actor), Paul Mercey (actor), Anouk Aimée (actress),
Plot: Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. Her parents are against their relation and stop financial help.
Keywords: alcoholic, artist, based-on-novel, depression, drunkenness, montparnasse, painter