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The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal (1985)
Directed by Mario Monicelli
Overview
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.
Length 178 minutes
Actors
Marcello Mastroianni | Senta Berger | Flavio Bucci | Laura Morante | Laura del Sol | Andréa Ferréol | Bernard Blier | Caroline Berg | Néstor Garay | Alessandro Haber | Carlo Bagno | Clelia Rondinella | Rosalia Maggio | Flora Cantori | Helen Sterling | François Marinovich | Elettra Mancini Ferrua | Maria Paola Sutto | Paul Müller | Victor Cavallo | Tonino Proietti | Giuseppe Cederna