Modigliani DVD 2004 / Directed by Mick Davis / Starring Andi Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili, Hippolyte Girardot, Eva Herzigova, Udo Kier

UPC 5998133154033 / 5998133189905

REGION 2 PAL DVD  

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 2.0

Runtime: 128 minutes

English Summary:

Modigliani is a 2004 drama biographical film written and directed by Mick Davis and starring Andy García, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili, Hippolyte Girardot, Eva Herzigova and Udo Kier. It is based on the life of the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.

Set in Paris in 1919, this biopic presents the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, centering, artistically, on his relationship to and rivalry with Pablo Picasso when they both lived in Paris. Modigliani, an Italian Jew from Livorno, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful French Catholic girl. The couple has a child, and Jeanne's bigoted father sends the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught but needs money to rescue and raise his child. Paris' annual art competition is in the offing. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner.

Arriving like a comet, he danced on tables, drunk with passion for life and art and his ending was the tragedy of true genius like Van Gogh and Mozart. He was Modigliani. Paris 1919. Two men - artists, Amedeo Modigliani (Andy Garcia) and Pablo Picasso (Omid Djalili) have a bitter rivalry fuelled by brilliance, arrogance and passion. But Modigliani also has another passion in his life, Jeanne Hebuterne (Elsa Zlyberstein), a beautiful Catholic girl whose only fault in her father s eyes was to fall in love with Modigliani, a Jew. This is the remarkable story of Modigliani s brilliant but tortured genius and the great conflicts of passion he had to face. This is the true story of one amazing man and one of the greatest love tragedies in art history.

Hungarian Summary:

Az életrajzi film az 1920-ban 36 évesen, szegényen és betegségben elhunyt itáliai szobrász és festőművész, Amadeo Modigliani utolsó szerelmét és életének utolsó napjait mutatja be. 1919-ben, az első világháború után Párizs a művészek Mekkájának számított, ahol a mozgalmas éjszakai életet élő alkotók veszélyes szenvedélyeiknek adóztak. Az egymással rivalizáló művészek izgalmas életét ismerhetjük meg, valamint a szemünk elé tárul Modigliani Picasso-val folytatott keserű harcának eddig ismeretlen története is.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Andy García ... Amedeo Modigliani
• Elsa Zylberstein ... Jeanne Hébuterne, Modigliani's chief love interest
• Omid Djalili ... Pablo Picasso, Modigliani's rival
• Hippolyte Girardot ... Maurice Utrillo
• Eva Herzigova ... Olga Khokhlova, Picasso's wife
• Udo Kier ... Max Jacob
• Susie Amy ... Beatrice Hastings
• Peter Capaldi ... Jean Cocteau
• Louis Hilyer ... Léopold Zborowski
• Stevan Rimkus ... Chaim Soutine
• Dan Astileanu ... Diego Rivera
• George Ivascu ... Moise Kisling
• Michelle Newell ... Eudoxie Hébuterne
• Frederico Ambrosino ... Little Dedo
• Miriam Margolyes ... Gertrude Stein
• Irina Dinescu ... Paulette
• Theodor Danetti ... Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Ion Siminie ... Claude Monet
• Jim Carter ... Achilles Hébuterne
• Lance Henriksen ... Foster Kane
• Loredana Groza ... Singer
• Oana Zavoranu ... Eugenia Modigliani
• Maria Rotaru ... Berthe Weill (as Marina Rotaru)