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. 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.
External links
1937 films
1937 drama films
Italian drama films
1930s Italian-language films
Films based on works by Luigi Pirandello
Films based on Italian novels
Films directed by Pierre Chenal
Italian multilingual films
Cines Studios films
Italian black-and-white films
1937 multilingual films
1930s Italian films
