Feu Mathias Pascal (1937)★ 6.8/10

The Man from Nowhere

FR,IT · 92 min · February 19, 1937

• Drama

Directed by: Pierre Chenal

Written by: Luigi Pirandello, Pierre Chenal, Christian Stengel, Armand Salacrou, Roger Vitrac

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.