Director: Mario Monicelli
Cast: Andréa Ferréol, Bernard Blier, Caroline Berg, Flavio Bucci, Laura del Sol, Laura Morante, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger
Synopsis:
Cast: Andréa Ferréol, Bernard Blier, Caroline Berg, Flavio Bucci, Laura del Sol, Laura Morante, Marcello Mastroianni, Senta Berger
Synopsis:
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.
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Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
