Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1937
The Former Mattia Pascal
Buy The Former Mattia Pascal now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
' 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.Landy p.155 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
* Luigi Pralavorio as Pomino
* Giuseppe Pierozzi as Il bibliotecario anziano
* Luigi Zerbinati as L'idiota della pensione
* Cesare Zoppetti as Paleari
* Alberto Angelini
* Guido Barbarisi
* Ornella Da Vasto
* Fernando De Crucciati
* Nino Eller
* Claudio Ermelli as Il becchino
* Enzo Gainotti
* 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
Bibliography
* Landy, Marcia. 'Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931-1943'. Princeton University Press, 2014.
Buy The Former Mattia Pascal now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1937