Film
The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
Italy- Director
- Mario Monicelli
- Year
- 1985
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.
Top cast
Marcello Mastroianni
Mattia Pascal
Senta Berger
Clara
Flavio Bucci
Terenzio Papiano
Laura Morante
Adriana Paleari
Laura del Sol
Romilda Pescatore
Andréa Ferréol
Silvia Caporale
Bernard Blier
Anselmo Paleari
Caroline Berg
Véronique
Néstor Garay
Giambattista Malagna
Alessandro Haber
Mino Pomino
Carlo Bagno
Pellegrinotto
Clelia Rondinella
Oliva Salvoni
Rosalia Maggio
Vedova pescatore
Flora Cantori
Madre di Mattia
Helen Sterling
Zia Scolastica
François Marinovich
Padre di Pomino
Elettra Mancini Ferrua
Governante di Casa Pascal
Maria Paola Sutto
Prostituta
Directed by
Mario Monicelli
Written by
Mario Monicelli
Produced by
Carlo Cucchi