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.
Genres:
Marcello Mastroianni as Mattia Pascal
Senta Berger as Clara
Flavio Bucci as Terenzio Papiano
Laura Morante as Adriana Paleari
Laura del Sol as Romilda Pescatore
Andréa Ferréol as Silvia Caporale
Bernard Blier as Anselmo Paleari
Caroline Berg as Véronique
Néstor Garay as Giambattista Malagna
Alessandro Haber as Mino Pomino
Carlo Bagno as Pellegrinotto
Clelia Rondinella as Oliva Salvoni
Rosalia Maggio as Vedova pescatore
Flora Cantori as Madre di Mattia
Helen Sterling as Zia Scolastica
François Marinovich as Padre di Pomino
Elettra Mancini Ferrua as Governante di Casa Pascal
Maria Paola Sutto as Prostituta
Paul Müller as Giocatore a Montecarlo
Victor Cavallo as Avvocato Settebellezze
Tonino Proietti as Amante di Clara
Giuseppe Cederna as Giovane Bisca Veneziano
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