The last yea\r of$- l[) i#fe! of the *It*alian-French painter ?]Amedeo Modigliani (188.;@4-1920) who @#!d^@ied w^ith 36 ye: ars, ;)\was playe;)d b@y Gérard Ph(%ilipe, who w$\as lethally sick during the shoot-!in\g o- )f this:  !;mov;ie and died shortly after([ it#%s rel-ease,%_% 1959, with 3\`6!]. yea_rs [+,@- on one of th:e two diseases that Modig`-
liano ^)had. h:)imself and exa(#ct?#ly! in his ag;,e#;. Further, .[( thi!s/ movie was directed by *J_acques Bec\%ker -# after th)e !su- dden death o:#:f Ma!x .Ophüls. @ +:Becker`+, too, died onl(;@y 2 yea` r^#=s after this %
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