The Former Mattia Pascal
- ️Thu Apr 08 1937
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.
- 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
- Landy, Marcia. Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931-1943. Princeton University Press, 2014.