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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 | Andréa Ferréol | Senta Berger | Bernard Blier | Flavio Bucci | Laura Morante | Paul Müller | Laura del Sol | Giuseppe Cederna | Alessandro Haber | Rosalia Maggio | Carlo Bagno | Clelia Rondinella | Victor Cavallo | Néstor Garay | Caroline Berg | Helen Sterling | Tonino Proietti | Flora Cantori | François Marinovich | Elettra Mancini Ferrua | Maria Paola Sutto