
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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