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.
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Pierre Blanchar as Mathias Pascal / Adrien Meis
Isa Miranda as Louise Paleari
Robert Le Vigan as Le comte Papiano
Ginette Leclerc as Romilda Pescatore
Catherine Fonteney as Delphine Pescatore
Charlotte Barbier-Krauss as Angelica Fede Pascal
Margo Lion as Mlle Caporale
Sinoël as Henri Paleari
Maximilienne as La tante Scholastique
Pierre Palau as Le chevalier Titus
Pierre Alcover as Malagna, l'ancien prétendant et notaire de Madame Pascal
Léonce Corne as l'hôtelier du Luxor
Louis Daquin as le concierge de l'hôtel
Gaston Dupray as le directeur du journal
René Génin as l'ivrogne
Jean Hébey as Pomino, le fils du maire, employé de l'état civil, qui épousera Romilda en secondes noces
Robert Moor as Le fossoyeur
Marcel Vallée as le maire, père de Pomino
Charles Granval as Ottavio Meis, un homme qui se croit le cousin de Mathias
Yvonne Yma as Adèle Meis, sa femme
Paquita Claude as Pepita, une jeune pensionnaire
Marcel Lupovici as Beraldez
Georges Douking as le domestique simplet de la pension Paleari
Enrico Glori as le coiffeur
Henri Giquel as le docteur Basile, un pensionnaire
Dax Berthy as le curé
Charles Léger as le bibliothécaire à la retraite
Ornella Da Vasto as
Louis Daquin as (non crédité)
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