The Former Mattia Pascal
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Directed by | Pierre Chenal |
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Distributed by | Colosseum Film |
Release date | 8 April 1937 |
Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The Former Mattia Pascal (Italian: Il fu Mattia Pascal) is a 1937 Italian drama film directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Pierre Blanchar, Isa Miranda and Irma Gramatica.[1] It is based on the 1904 novel Il fu Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello. The film was shot at the Cines Studios in Rome. A separate French-language version was also made, under the title The Man from Nowhere.
The film's art direction was by Guido Fiorini.
Cast[]
- Pierre Blanchar as Mattia Pascal
- Isa Miranda as Luisa Paleari
- Irma Gramatica as La vedova Pescatore
- Nella Maria Bonora as Romilda Pescatore Pascal
- Olga Solbelli as Silvia Caporale
- Enrico Glori as Il conte Papiano
- Adele Garavaglia as Angelica Bonafede Pascal
- Silvio Bagolini as Il portiere dell'hotel Luxor
- Pina Gallini as Zia Scolastica
- as Pomino
- Giuseppe Pierozzi as Il bibliotecario anziano
- as L'idiota della pensione
- Cesare Zoppetti as Paleari
- Guido Barbarisi
- Nino Eller
- Claudio Ermelli as Il becchino
- Mario Gallina
- Luisa Garella
- Fausto Guerzoni as Un cameriere
- Rita Livesi
- Achille Majeroni
- Nicola Maldacea
- Cesare Polacco as Un ospite della pensione
- Giovanna Scotto
- Edda Soligo as Una signora al tavolo da giocco
- Gino Viotti
References[]
- ^ Landy p.155
Bibliography[]
- Landy, Marcia. Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931-1943. Princeton University Press, 2014.
External links[]
Categories:
- Italian-language films
- 1937 films
- 1937 drama films
- Italian drama films
- Italian films
- Films based on works by Luigi Pirandello
- Films based on Italian novels
- Films directed by Pierre Chenal
- Italian multilingual films
- Cines Studios films
- Italian black-and-white films
- 1937 multilingual films
- 1930s Italian film stubs