Cast overview: | |||
Ivan Mozzhukhin | ... | Mathias Pascal (as Ivan Mosjoukine) | |
Marcelle Pradot | ... | Romilde Pascal | |
Lois Moran | ... | Adrienne Paleari | |
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Marthe Mellot | ... | Maria Pascal, la mère de Mathias (as Marthe Belot) |
Pauline Carton | ... | Scholastique Pascal | |
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Irma Perrot | ... | Sylvia Caporale |
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Mireille Barsac | ... | Veuve Pescatore (as M. Barsac) |
Michel Simon | ... | Jérôme Pomino | |
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Isaure Douvan | ... | Batta Maldagna |
Pierre Batcheff | ... | Scipion Papiano | |
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Georges Térof | ... | L'amoureux du 12, un joueur |
Philippe Hériat | ... | L'aide assesseur | |
Jean Hervé | ... | Chev Terence Papiano |
Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romilde, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare, as well as his job as assistant librarian in his home town. His only moments of lights are his mother and his baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked he leaves his hometown and gets to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the Casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he now is free from all ties to his old live, decides to start a new one, and goes to Rome, where he rents a room in a pension full of fake spiritualists who are controlling the owner. The chief of the gang, Terence, wants to marry the owner's daughter Adrienne, and has convinced her father to give her to him, with no regards of Adrienne's feelings, who is in love with and loved by Mathias. When Terence steals Mathias ... Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
This was the 2nd Marcel L'Herbier movie that I watched. It has some strange and mystical quality that sometimes remind me of #PaulAuster's novels. Amazing adaptation, wonderful plot.