The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal (Italian: Le due vite di Mattia Pascal) is a 1985 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was adapted from the novel Il fu Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
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Plot
Mattia Pascal, an unsuccessful small farmer in northern Italy, decides to try his luck at a French casino and wins. When he sees in a newspaper story that a man with the same name has died mysteriously, he decides that this is a perfect opportunity to begin a new life. He takes the name Arturo Meis and moves to Rome. But he finds that a new life is not necessarily a more satisfying one.
Cast
Marcello Mastroianni as Mattia Pascal
Senta Berger as Clara
Flavio Bucci as Terenzio Papiano
Laura Morante as Adriana Paleari
Laura del Sol as Romilda Pescatore
Caroline Berg as Véronique
Andréa Ferréol as Silvia Caporale
Bernard Blier as Anselmo Paleari
Alessandro Haber as Mino Pomino
Néstor Garay as Giambattista Malagna
Rosalia Maggio as Widow Pescatore
Clelia Rondinella as Oliva Salvoni
Carlo Bagno as Pellegrinotto
Flora Cantone as Mattia's mother
Helen Stirling as Aunt Scolastica
François Marinovich as Pomino's father
Elettra Mancini Ferrua as the maid in the Pascal household
Paul Muller as the chip thief in Monte Carlo
Victor Cavallo as Lawyer Cirino Settebellezze
Tonino Proietti as Clara’s lover
Giuseppe Cederna as the gambling-house operator in Venice
Peter Berling as Aristide Melainassis
Roberto Accornero as the suicidal man in Monte Carlo