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Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The "new" Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him--and nearly kills him.Read moreLess
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The "new" Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him--and nearly kills him.
The story
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The "new" Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him--and nearly kills him.
Cast & crew
Marcello MastroianniMattia Pascal
Senta BergerClara
Flavio BucciTerenzio Papiano
Laura MoranteAdriana Paleari
Laura del SolRomilda Pescatore
Andréa FerréolSilvia Caporale
Bernard BlierAnselmo Paleari
Caroline BergVéronique
Néstor GarayGiambattista Malagna
Alessandro HaberMino Pomino
Carlo BagnoPellegrinotto
Clelia RondinellaOliva SalvoniExplore the crew
- Director
- Mario Monicelli
- Original Music Composer
- Nicola Piovani
- Producer
- Carlo Cucchi
- Screenplay
- Mario Monicelli
- Director of Photography
- Camillo Bazzoni
- Producer
- Silvia D'Amico Bendicò
- Screenplay
- Ennio De Concini
- Screenplay
- Amanzio Todini
- Screenplay
- Suso Cecchi d'Amico
- Editor
- Ruggero Mastroianni