Feu Mathias Pascal
Synopsis
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (24)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Général Productions
- Foreign production company : Colosseum Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : Editions René Château
- French distributors : Societe d'Edition et de Location de Films (SELF), Transunivers Films
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriters : Pierre Chenal, Armand Salacrou, Roger Vitrac, Christian Stengel
- Director of Photography : Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
- Music Composer : Jacques Ibert
- Assistant Director : Louis Daquin
- Editor : Pierre Chenal
- Author of original work : Luigi Pirandello
- Producer : Christian Stengel
- Voice : Claude Marcy
- Camera Operator : André Bac
- Production Manager : Christian Stengel
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Italy, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Italy, France)
- Production year : 1936
- French release : 19/02/1937
- Runtime : 1 h 32 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 234
- Visa issue date : 31/08/1940
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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Pierre Chenal initially worked on the screenplay with writer Armand Salacrou but the two men failed to agree on the mood and style envisaged by the director. Chenal engaged instead the distinguished poet and playwright Roger Vitrac. Salacrou's name remained in the credits while Vitrac's appeared only as additional dialogue writer.See more »
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