The last year of life of the Italian-French painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) who died with 36 years, was played by Gérard Philipe, who was lethally sick during the shooting of this movie and died shortly after its release, 1959, with 36 years – on one of the two diseases that Modigliano had himself and exactly in his age. Further, this movie was directed by Jacques Becker …