Film
The Man from Nowhere
Italy · France- Director
- Pierre Chenal
- Year
- 1937
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.
Top cast
Pierre Blanchar
Mathias Pascal / Adrien Meis
Isa Miranda
Louise Paleari
Robert Le Vigan
Le comte Papiano
Ginette Leclerc
Romilda Pescatore
Catherine Fonteney
Delphine Pescatore
Charlotte Barbier-Krauss
Angelica Fede Pascal
Margo Lion
Mlle Caporale
Sinoël
Henri Paleari
Maximilienne
La tante Scholastique
Pierre Palau
Le chevalier Titus
Pierre Alcover
Malagna, l'ancien prétendant et notaire de Madame Pascal
Léonce Corne
l'hôtelier du Luxor
Louis Daquin
le concierge de l'hôtel
Gaston Dupray
le directeur du journal
René Génin
l'ivrogne
Jean Hébey
Pomino, le fils du maire, employé de l'état civil, qui épousera Romilda en secondes noces
Robert Moor
Le fossoyeur
Marcel Vallée
le maire, père de Pomino
Directed by
Pierre Chenal
Written by
Pierre Chenal, Armand Salacrou, Christian Stengel, Roger Vitrac